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The study on career commitment is important in employment retention issues. It was regarded that professional employees are committed to their profession more than the organization itself. This study evaluates the level of career commitment among 303 ICT professionals located in Peninsular Malaysia and investigates whether it has any influence on their level of intention to leave. The results found that career identity, career planning and career resilience have negative influence on both intention to leave the organization and intention to leave the career. All three constructs of career commitment were found to have significant impact on intention to leave the organization. However, only career identity and career resilience were found to have significant impact on intention to leave the career. It was also found that the level of intention to leave the organization is higher than the career. Implications of this study and recommendation for future studies were discussed.
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Omar, S., Noordin, F. (2016). Career Commitment and Intention to Leave Among ICT Professionals in Malaysia. In: Pyeman, J., Wan Rashid, W., Hanif, A., Syed Mohamad, S., Tan, P. (eds) Proceedings of the 1st AAGBS International Conference on Business Management 2014 (AiCoBM 2014). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-426-9_27
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