Why Millennials Didn't Stay? The Role of Employee Engagement as A Mediator in The Relationship Between Person-Organization FIT and Organizational Commitment

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10.2991/978-94-6463-817-2_90How to use a DOI?

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Millennials; Employee Engagement; Organizational Commitment; Person-Organization Fit

Abstract

The millennial generation is known as a generation that likes to change occupations, so they are considered less committed to their work. The main reason why millennials often change occupations is because there is a mismatch between the working conditions, values, and culture adopted by millennials and their work. Therefore, an organization needs to have congruent values, culture, ways of fulfilling needs, and organizational goals with employees from the millennial generation. This overall fit is called Person Organization FIT or P-O Fit. P-O fit has previously been found to have a significant role in predicting employee commitment. However, the portion of this influence is still minimal, so researchers hypothesize that other variables are needed to bridge the interaction between P-O Fit and Organizational commitment. Based on the literature analysis, the employee engagement variable is considered suitable as a bridge or mediator variable to strengthen the relationship between P-O fit and organizational commitment. This research was conducted on 277 respondents, millennial employees in Indonesia. The data collection method used was a survey method with purposive sampling. This research found that P-O Fit is proven to need to be mediated by employee engagement in predicting Organizational commitment. This is because after the indirect effect occurs, the relationship between P-O Fit and Organizational Commitment becomes insignificant, resulting in a fully mediated interaction between P-O Fit and Organizational Commitment mediated by Employee Engagement.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ilham Medal Junjunan
AU  - Karima Astari
AU  - Yolan Fauziyyah
AU  - Defiannisa Ayu Puspitasari
AU  - Evi Sri Nurhastuti
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/09/12
TI  - Why Millennials Didn't Stay? The Role of Employee Engagement as A Mediator in The Relationship Between Person-Organization FIT and Organizational Commitment
BT  - Proceedings of the 9th Global Conference on Business, Management and Entrepreneurship (GCBME 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 766
EP  - 776
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-817-2_90
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-817-2_90
ID  - Junjunan2025
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