Generation Y Behavior: Employee Loyalty Based on Job Satisfaction and Workplace Spirituality

Abstract

The present study is motivated by the belief that employee loyalty is an important factor that helps companies to survive in an increasingly fierce business competition. To generate employees' loyalty, good workplace spirituality and job satisfaction are very much required. The aim of this study is to analyze the loyalty of Generation Y employees as the effect of job satisfaction and work spirituality at private universities in Garut Regency, Indonesia. To this end, the study utilized a descriptive and verification approach in which the data were collected from 132 respondents using the interviews, questionnaires and surveys. The respondents were chosen by using saturated or census sampling techniques. Then, the collected data were analyzed by using path analysis with SPSS 24.0 software. The results showed that of all the analyzed research variables, the criteria were quite high. Work spirituality and job satisfaction showed a significant effect on employee loyalty. The findings also indicated that the employees who feel the spiritual values at the workplace tend to stay in the organization. In addition, a fair and decent remuneration system makes the Generation Y employees feel satisfied.

What is the connection between Gen Y employees' loyalty, satisfaction, and workplace spirituality?

“…Job characteristics as a form of Job Satisfaction affect Employee Loyalty, meaning that when employees feel satisfied with their work, one of them is compensation or incentives to maintain and enhance staff performance to carry out their work appropriately. (Riwukore et al, 2021), Fair remuneration can stimulate employees' feelings of pleasure (Nurhasan et al, 2021) when the job can improve the welfare of their family, employees will feel satisfied (Puspitawati & Atmaja, 2020), the existence of supervisory support makes them loyal (Dhir et al, 2020). Work will be completed voluntarily without supervision because they already feel part of the company (Mohyi, 2021).…”

The Effect of Compensation and Empowerment on Employee Loyalty Mediated by Job Satisfaction (Case Study at PT Permodalan Nasional Madani Regional Surabaya 1)

“…Then Alyani (2017); Larastrini (2019); Rezanti (2021); Ramadhani (2017) stated that satisfaction has a positive and significant effect on employee loyalty. while according to Nurhasan (2017) stated that job satisfaction has no significant effect on employee loyalty.…”

Strategy to Improve Personnel Work Performance Through Discipline, Motivation and Leadership

“…Organizations can achieve their intent when they effectively and efficiently employ the assets like personnel, materials and, funds (Sonmez Cakir and Adiguzel 2020). Amongst all these assets human resources are the most dominant because they utilize the other assets of the organization to reach the goals of the organization (Kapur 2011).Managing human resources to get the best out of them has become the significant goal of every organization because the overall attainment or disaster of every organization is highly in need of the performance of the personnel (Nurhasan et al 2021).…”