Serhat ERAT - Gebze Technical University, Kocaeli, Turkey
Lütfihak ALPKAN - Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Management, Istanbul, Turkey
Çağrı BULUT - Yasar University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, İzmir, Turkey
Hakan KĠTAPÇI - Gebze Technical University, Faculty of Business Administration, Kocaeli, Turkey

The quality of work life plays an important role in the success of an organization (Srivastava & Kanpur, 2014). The organizational load on employees can affect the individual and their work stress, as well as employee turnover intention, and employee emotional commitment.Therefore, many studies have focused on work stress and commitment. We investigated the effects of responsibility load and workload on work stress, emotional commitment, and turnover intention, using a sample of academicians employed in state universities in Turkey. We collected data via questionnaires from the academicians (n = 1043). The results indicate that: 1) both workload and responsibility load affect work stress, 2) both workload and responsibility load affect emotional commitment, and 3) workload affects turnover intention, while responsibility load has no effect on it.

responsibility load, workload, emotional commitment, turnover intention, work stress