The effect of the meaningfulness of work on job satisfaction, job stress and intention to leave
The effect of the meaningfulness of work on job satisfaction, job stress and intention to leave

Summary/Abstract: The meaningfulness of work is defined as the importance of the purposes of work in people's view of life and attitudes. There are studies about the meaningfulness of work that describe not only its significant and positive contributions to the meaningfulness of people's lives, but also as taking pleasure in work, which has a variety of cognitive, emotional, behavioral and economic benefits. The meaningfulness of work defined as the importance of the purposes of work in people's view of life and attitudes can be connected with variables in the field of organizational behavior. The purpose of this study is to determine the effects and correlations among job satisfaction and intention to leave with a path analysis to be carried out as part of a research model for these variables. It is intended to contribute the literature by analyzing the effects and correlations among the variables with a structural equation model and to obtain data about employee behavior in organizational life. The universe of the study is comprised of employees of an insurance business in Istanbul. This study will use the following data collection tools: the "Work and Meaning Inventory" by Steger, Frazier,Oishi & Kaler (2012), the "Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire" developed by Weis and adapted to Turkish by Oran (1989), the "Intention to Leave Scale" by Wayne, Shore and Linden (1997) and “Perceived Stress Scale” developed by Cohen, Kamarck & Mermelste (1983) and adopted to Turkish by Bilge, Ögce, Genc & Oran (2007).

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