Relationships Between Resilience Quotient and Job Embeddedness of Employees of Auto-parts Manufacturer

Abstract

          As a result of the economic recession and the crisis of COVID-19 pandemic, employees in the organization are greatly affected in many ways. If employees have high resilience quotient, they are likely to be related with job embeddedness which is beneficial to the organization. The objectives of this research are (1) to study levels of resilience quotient and job embeddedness of employees of auto- parts manufacturer, (2) to study relationship between resilience quotient and job embeddedness of employees of auto-parts manufacturer.  Participants were 316 employees of auto-parts manufacturer by using a sampling method. The instrument was a questionnaire. It has reliability greater than 0.7. The statistics used to analyze data were frequency percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The results revealed that (1) Levels of resilience quotient and job embeddedness of employees of auto-parts manufacturer were at a high level ( = 4.06, 3.74 SD = 0.38, 0.40 respectively), (2) There was a positive relationship between resilience quotient and job embeddedness of employees of auto-parts manufacturer with a statistical significance at .01 level (r=.507). The facet of resilience quotient; emotional stability, encouragement and coping positively correlated with job embeddedness of employees of auto-parts manufacturer at the statistical significance level of .01 (r=.424, .446 and .479 respectively). From such relationships, it can be a guideline for management to consider improving and developing organizational policies. and continue to organize promotional activities in next phase.