WORKAHOLISM AND ORGANIZATIONAL-BASED SELF-ESTEEM PREDICTING EMPLOYEES’ ORGANIZATIONAL LOYALTY IN AN ENERGY BUSINESS
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Workaholism, Organizational-Based Self-Esteem, Organizational LoyaltyAbstract
This research aims to: 1) study workaholism level, organizational-based self- esteem, and organizational loyalty of employees, 2) investigate relationship between workaholism as well as organizational-based self-esteem and employees’ organizational loyalty, and 3) predict employees’ organizational loyalty with workaholism and organizational-based self-esteem. The population and samples were employees of a private company in the energy business. The sample consisted of 300 employees. The instrument was a questionnaire. The statistics used for data analysis were percentage, frequency, mean, standard deviation, Pearson products moment correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The results showed that: 1) workaholism, organizational-based self-esteem and employees’ organizational loyalty were at a high level. 2) Workaholism positively correlated with employees’ organizational loyalty at a medium level with the statistical significance level of .01. 3) Organizational-based self-esteem positively correlated with employees’ organizational loyalty at a medium level with a statistical significance level of .01, and 4) one facet of workaholism namely work motivation and organizational-based self-esteem of the employees could jointly predict 44 percent of their organizational loyalty.
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