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     Open Journal of Social Sciences
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    10.4236/jss.2024.129001
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    The Antecedents and Consequences of Job Satisfaction on Teachers’ Job Retention in HEI, Cambodia
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     <name name-style="western">
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       Heng
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       Ngounhort
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      <sup>1</sup>
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     <name name-style="western">
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       Uk
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       Chanveasna
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     </name> 
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      <sup>2</sup>
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     <name name-style="western">
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       Kim
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       Kirivadid
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       Sou
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       Veasna
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      <sup>3</sup>
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     aTraining Center of National Vocational Institute of Battambang, Battambang, Cambodia
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     aInternational Business Management (IBM), Royal University of Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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     aResearch Office, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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     29
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     08
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     2024
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    12
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    09
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    33
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      22,
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      July
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     <year>
      2024
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      26,
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      July
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      2024
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      26,
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      August
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      2024
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   <abstract>
    Employee job satisfaction and retention are important in the service industries and highly attract attention from research scholars and business practitioners. To better understand teacher’s job retention, this study applies social exchange theory and motivational theory to explore the key impacts of compensation systems, perceived organizational support, job involvement, and job satisfaction on job retention in HEI contexts in Cambodia. We obtained and analyzed primary survey data from a purposive sample of 329 teachers in HEIs (i.e., private and public universities) for quantitative research. The results of both regression analysis and the SEM indicate that compensation systems, perceived organizational support, job involvement, and job satisfaction all significantly improved employee retention. Interestingly, the SEM revealed that job satisfaction significantly influences a teacher’s job satisfaction, both directly and indirectly. Integrating the conceptual mode of compensation systems, perceived organizational support, job involvement, and job satisfaction may reduce job turnover in this work population. Indeed, in HEI contexts, companies with turnover rates below their educational service average are more likely to enjoy a competitive advantage than those with relatively high rates.
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     Compensation Systems
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      Perceived Organizational Support
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      Job Involvement
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      Job Satisfaction
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      Job Retention
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      Perceived Social Support
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      Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
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      Herzberg’s Theory of Motivation
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      Cambodia
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   <title>1. Introduction</title>
   <p>Employee job satisfaction and retention are key determinants of enhancing service performance in the service industries (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-25">
     Clark et al., 2009
    </xref>) and highly attract the attention of research scholars and business practitioners. Increased high-level perceptions of job satisfaction and retention are a direct determinant of firm performance (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-35">
     Fey et al., 2000
    </xref>). In contrast, employee dissatisfaction with their job may lead to high job quit intention or turnover (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-98">
     Takase et al., 2005
    </xref>), which also leads to achieving low organizational performance. People tend to leave their jobs (turnover) when they aren’t engaged with their work while they are being replaced, and sometimes after, productivity decreases (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-89">
     Rubin &amp; Dierdorff, 2011
    </xref>). Low job satisfaction is believed to be one of the most significant contributors to thoughts of quitting (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-56">
     Kinicki, 2021
    </xref>). <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-21">
     Chattopadhayay and Ghosh (2012)
    </xref> present a detailed review of their problems, suggesting that they create employee dissatisfaction and lead to high labor turnover. Teacher turnover is a global issue. Teacher turnover costs educational systems and governments money, continuity, and learning. High teacher turnover reduces the return on investment for hiring, inducting, and supporting new teachers. This study defines teacher turnover as attrition when they leave a school and the profession or migration when they leave one school for another (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-40">
     Gundlach, Slemp, &amp; Hattie, 2024
    </xref>).</p>
   <p>Managing employee turnover and retention is a critical issue concerned with retaining potential talented employees for the organization. Employee retention refers to activities aimed at retaining high potential-performing talent employee strengthens the effectiveness of the relationship between employers and the employees to address appropriate employee performance expectations at all levels (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-32">
     Dessler, 2020b
    </xref>). By retaining talented employees, compensation (pay) systems reward the best performers appropriately and motivate behaviors critical to business success (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-107">
     Wilson, 2004
    </xref>). Turnover is the permanent loss of workers from the organization (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-19">
     Call et al., 2015
    </xref>). Most teachers are perceived as less satisfied with their careers and often leave due to more advancement opportunities (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-6">
     Allen, 2018
    </xref>). Teacher induction is a crucial aspect of the education system, aimed at enhancing new teacher quality, job satisfaction, and retention (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-33">
     Doromal &amp; Markowitz, 2023
    </xref>). Strong and growing recognition exists that collective turnover can affect organizational productivity, performance, potential, and competitive advantage (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-66">
     Lussier &amp; Hendon, 2019
    </xref>). The lack of teacher retention negatively impacts educational sustainability regarding the educational system and quality. There are some key influences on the retention of teachers, which include career advancement opportunities, job satisfaction, and other variables of being an educator (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-1">
     Abu-Tineh et al., 2023
    </xref>). Researchers and policymakers attribute high turnover rates in the payment system to tough working conditions, such as low pay and restricted professional growth opportunities (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-33">
     Doromal &amp; Markowitz, 2023
    </xref>). Previous research suggests including family and social support (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-55">
     Kim et al., 2020
    </xref>), and HR Policy (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-9">
     Ashton, 2018
    </xref>) in job retention. Indeed, Previous researchers suggest future research on work-life culture and organizational commitment to predict employee job retention (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-93">
     Shockley et al., 2017
    </xref>). It’s interesting to note that employee job involvement is associated with employee job satisfaction, but there have been few investigations into this relationship (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-7">
     Al-Refaei et al., 2023
    </xref>). Based on these research gaps, this research manuscript aims to explore the key antecedents and sequences that influence job satisfaction and teachers’ job retention in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in Cambodia.</p>
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   <title>2. Theoretical Background and Hypotheses Development</title>
   <sec id="s2_1">
    <title>2.1. Social Exchange Theory</title>
    <p>The social exchange theory is among the most influential conceptual frameworks for understanding organizational behaviors. Social exchange theory is a central premise that exchanging social and material resources is a fundamental human interaction in the workplace (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-14">
      Blau, 1964
     </xref>). Several studies have demonstrated that social exchange relationships can predict job satisfaction, organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behaviors, and employee intentions to leave (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-71">
      Matthijs Bal et al., 2010
     </xref>). Social exchange theory (SET) is among the most influential conceptual paradigms for understanding workplace behavior (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-72">
      Memon et al., 2017
     </xref>), which is determined by the rewards of interaction between people or activities minus the penalty/cost of that interaction may have (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-39">
      Griffith et al., 2006
     </xref>). Similar to this theoretical perspective, when employers’ and employees’ efforts are recognized and fairly rewarded, they reciprocate by going above and beyond their roles (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-3">
      Agut et al., 2009
     </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-63">
      Lichtenstein, 2011
     </xref>). The social exchange theory is thus crucial for our model regarding the interaction between organization and employee to achieve something that both parties feel is fair or transparent in return for their effort and commitment (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-26">
      Coates, 2010
     </xref>). Thus, this study aims to explain the relationship between research variables using social exchange theory (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-5">
      Alias et al., 2018
     </xref>), as proposed in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">
      Figure 1
     </xref>.</p>
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      <title>Figure 1. Conceptual framework of teacher’s job retention.</title>
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    <title>2.2. Herzberg’s Motivation Theory</title>
    <p>Herzberg’s motivation theory (i.e., two-factor theory and motivation-hygiene theory) applies to investigate employee motivation in the workplace (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-45">
      Herzberg et al., 1959
     </xref>). Herzberg’s motivator-hygiene theory provided a great stimulus to the investigators for advancing research on job satisfaction (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-69">
      Malik &amp; Naeem, 2013
     </xref>). Central to the theories of motivation that collectively attempt to understand the thought processes that individual employees go through in determining how to behave in the workplace (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-95">
      Steers et al., 2004
     </xref>). Herzberg’s two-factor theory (i.e., motivation-hygiene theory)—intrinsic factors are related to employee job satisfaction, while extrinsic factors are associated with job dissatisfaction (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-87">
      Robbins et al., 2020
     </xref>). Herzberg’s motivation theory is one of the content theories of motivation to understand employee motivation in the workplace (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-77">
      Peramatzis &amp; Galanakis, 2022
     </xref>).</p>
   </sec>
   <sec id="s2_3">
    <title>2.3. Definition of Research Variables</title>
    <p>The compensation system is associated with performance appraisal, determining an employee’s work results. The compensation system also looks at how to create good work conditions, find competent employees, and successfully develop staff competency, all of which enable the company to guarantee high motivation and work satisfaction (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-101">
      Türk, 2008
     </xref>). These HRM practices contribute to attracting, motivating, and retaining human capital (the knowledge, skills, and abilities embedded in people), which can help a company gain a competitive advantage (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-81">
      Raymond 2017
     </xref>). All forms of pay or rewards going to employees and arising from their employment (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-31">
      Dessler, 2020a
     </xref>). Variable compensation plans that pay employees based on some performance measure (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-86">
      Robbins et al., 2018
     </xref>). The compensation system relates to all forms of beneficial pay or rewards going to employees and arising from their employment (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-32">
      Dessler, 2020b
     </xref>).</p>
    <p>Based on social exchange theory, employees repay benefits and opportunities provided by their working organization through continued effective performance when they find that the organization supports them by engaging in various human resource practices (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-53">
      Karatepe, 2012
     </xref>). Perceived organizational support is “the extent to which employees believe their organization values their contributions and genuinely cares about their wellbeing” (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-56">
      Kinicki, 2021: p. 59
     </xref>). Perceived organizational support refers to the “degree to which employees believe an organization values their contribution and cares about their well-being” (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-85">
      Robbins &amp; Judge, 2022b: p. 113
     </xref>).</p>
    <p>
     <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-76">
      Paullay et al. (1994)
     </xref> point out that job involvement is a psychological state wherein an individual “is cognitively preoccupied with, engaged in, and concerned with one’s present job” (p. 224). As managers, we always need to do things that will improve productivity, performance, and employee involvement or engagement and reduce absenteeism and turnover (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-66">
      Lussier &amp; Hendon, 2019
     </xref>). Job involvement represents how much an individual is personally engaged in their work role (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-56">
      Kinicki, 2021
     </xref>). Managers can foster satisfying work environments to fuel employees’ job involvement. Job involvement refers to the “degree to which a person identifies with a job, actively participates in it, and considers performance important to self-worth” (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-84">
      Robbins &amp; Judge, 2022a: p. 66
     </xref>). A particularly strong relationship has been found between employee job involvement or engagement and retention, that is, labor turnover rates; higher levels of job involvement are strongly associated with lower turnover or increased high rates of job retention (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-30">
      Derek et al., 2020
     </xref>).</p>
    <p>
     <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-65">
      Locke (1976)
     </xref> defines job satisfaction as “a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job or job experiences” (p. 1300). Job satisfaction is individuals’ positive or negative judgments, emotional reactions, and attitudes toward their job (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-104">
      Weiss, 2002
     </xref>). Job satisfaction is defined as an affective reaction to a job that compares perceived outcomes with desired expectations (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-54">
      Kardam &amp; Rangnekar, 2012
     </xref>). According to Herzberg’s theory, job satisfaction is an employee’s positive feelings towards her or his work (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-64">
      Liu et al., 2016
     </xref>). Job satisfaction involves an employee’s general attitude toward his or her job (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-86">
      Robbins et al., 2018
     </xref>). Job satisfaction reflects the extent to which an individual likes their job. Formally defined, job satisfaction is an affective or emotional response toward various facets of your job (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-56">
      Kinicki, 2021
     </xref>). Job satisfaction is a “positive feeling about one’s job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics” (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-85">
      Robbins &amp; Judge, 2022b: p. 111
     </xref>). Education research has extensively examined the factors affecting teacher work satisfaction. Teachers should deliver better education when they are happy (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-51">
      Jerrim, 2024
     </xref>). Thus, this research defines job satisfaction as the efficiency or result of the work that exceeds the expectations according to the work plan the organization has set for an individual employee to perform their roles and responsibilities.</p>
    <p>Retention is typically measured by labor turnover rates, which measure employee departures from an organization’s employment in their simplest form. Within this wide definition, however, turnover can take many forms. For example, employees may resign, retire, be dismissed, or be made redundant. It is important to understand the reasons behind turnover to reduce it: labor turnover is extremely costly, and most organizations work to reduce turnover levels to minimize these costs (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-30">
      Derek et al., 2020
     </xref>). Job retention is defined as a continuously held position at the same organization earning a competitive wage for more than one year (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-99">
      Thomas &amp; Morgan, 2021
     </xref>). Employee or job retention is getting competent and qualified people into the venture, which is the first step in effectively managing human resources. An entrepreneur wants to keep the people they have hired and trained. A unique and important employee retention issue entrepreneurs must deal with is compensation. Whereas traditional organizations are more likely to view compensation from monetary rewards (base pay, benefits, and incentives), smaller entrepreneurial firms are more likely to view compensation from a total rewards perspective (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-87">
      Robbins et al., 2020
     </xref>). For these firms, compensation system is highly associated with psychological rewards, learning opportunities, recognition, and economic rewards (i.e., base pay and incentives) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-49">
      Iqbal &amp; Inayat, 2022
     </xref>). Thus, job retention refers to job retention as employment status rather than length on the same job or at the same employer.</p>
    <p>This form of support can help individuals deal with work problems (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-60">
      Lambert &amp; Hogan, 2010
     </xref>). Perceived social support deals with employee’s perception related to others care and help them with work matters (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-29">
      Davidson &amp; Wang, 2011
     </xref>). Perceived social support is defined as the provision of beneficial help for at least two individuals that is intended to buffer psychological distress and enhance emotional well-being (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-61">
      Lee et al., 2013: p. 380
     </xref>). Perceived social support is collegial relationships with coworkers or supervisors (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-85">
      Robbins &amp; Judge, 2022b
     </xref>). Therefore, this study argues that perceived social support is valuable because it provides psychological support, assistance, feedback, and motivation for employees.</p>
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   <sec id="s2_4">
    <title>2.4. Hypotheses Development</title>
    <p>The compensation system represents an important research variable to organizations and the field of HRM to predict individual employee behavioral and attitudinal outcomes (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-57">
      Kumar, 2016
     </xref>). This study highlights that key sub-dimensions of HRM practices, such as compensation, work-life balance, and employee engagement, are vital to employees and influence employee retention (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-75">
      Ngwenya &amp; Aigbavboa, 2017
     </xref>). Key contributors to job satisfaction include compensation, pay, trust between employees and senior management, and job security, which use their knowledge, skills, and abilities to handle work effectively (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-23">
      Chong et al., 2020
     </xref>). Compensation is imperative for the employees as it offers a sense of security, autonomy, and improved self-worth that could lead to employee commitment and productivity (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-23">
      Chong et al., 2020
     </xref>). The compensation system is one of the most important HRM practices to motivate employees in the workplace. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-23">
      Chong et al. (2020)
     </xref> investigated the impact of the compensation system, which is one of the most important sub-dimensions of human resource management practices (i.e., planning &amp; recruitment, training programs, compensation, and performance appraisal) on employee satisfaction among 302 Jordanian telecommunication companies employees and found that compensation system significantly affects employee satisfaction. According to Herzberg’s theory of motivation, employee motivation is associated with a psychological process of an individual that arouses our interest in doing something and directs and guides behavior (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-47">
      House &amp; Wigdor, 1967
     </xref>), which positively correlates to job satisfaction (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-56">
      Kinicki, 2021
     </xref>). Compensation system plays a significant role in determining employees’ job satisfaction. Based on the above research arguments, thus study proposes the following hypothesis:</p>
    <p>Hypothesis 1: Compensation system has a positively significant impact on teacher job satisfaction.</p>
    <p>Perceived organizational support is expected to be significantly positively related to employee career satisfaction (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-8">
      Armstrong‐Stassen &amp; Ursel, 2009
     </xref>). Organizational support (i.e., supervisors, managers, and leaders) can help increase job satisfaction by ensuring new employees understand their new job tasks and feel connected to others in the organization (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-56">
      Kinicki, 2021
     </xref>). Perceived organizational support is associated with employees’ general belief in their organization, the value of their contribution, and care about their well-being. High levels of perceived organizational support increase job satisfaction and lower turnover (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-86">
      Robbins et al., 2018
     </xref>). Therefore, this study assumes that older workers who perceived greater organizational support would be more satisfied with their career than those who experienced less organizational support. Then, the following hypothesis is proposed:</p>
    <p>Hypothesis 2: Perceived organizational support has a positively significant impact on teacher job satisfaction.</p>
    <p>Job involvement and job satisfaction have positively correlated (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-70">
      Mathieu &amp; Farr, 1991
     </xref>). Many years of research have demonstrated that job involvement is moderately related to job satisfaction (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-17">
      Brown, 1996
     </xref>). Job involvement is crucial in improving employee satisfaction in the Turkish hospitality industry (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-59">
      Kuruüzüm et al., 2009
     </xref>). They concluded that there is a significant relationship between job involvement and job satisfaction (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-110">
      Zopiatis et al., 2014
     </xref>). High levels of employee job involvement are related to fewer absences (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-58">
      Kumari, 2011
     </xref>), lower resignation rates, and higher employee engagement and job satisfaction (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-86">
      Robbins et al., 2018
     </xref>). There is a positive link between employee job involvement and job satisfaction among millennial workers (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-37">
      García et al., 2019
     </xref>). The influence of job involvement on job satisfaction is confirmed by <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-34">
      Fernández-Salinero et al. (2020)
     </xref>. In recent studies, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-36">
      Gajić et al. (2021)
     </xref> are unequivocal in their claim that job involvement significantly influences employee’s job satisfaction. According to self-efficacy theory, researcher indicates that teacher self-efficacy is crucial for retaining satisfied and effective teachers and maximizing student achievement (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-78">
      Perera et al., 2022
     </xref>). Therefore, the following research hypothesis is proposed:</p>
    <p>Hypothesis 3: Job involvement has a positively significant impact on teacher job satisfaction.</p>
    <p>Retention shortages may be caused by a range of push and pull factors (i.e., low wage level and low employee satisfaction) at the individual level, resulting in increased job turnover (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-89">
      Rubin &amp; Dierdorff, 2011
     </xref>). <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-46">
      Holland et al. (2017)
     </xref> study demonstrated this, evidencing the relationship between effective job satisfaction mechanisms, strong engagement, and reduced turnover or increased levels of job retention. With push factors, the problem is dissatisfaction with the job or the organization, leading to an unwanted turnover. Job satisfaction may also indirectly affect labor productivity because higher satisfaction decreases turnover rates and absenteeism and increases company commitment (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-37">
      García et al., 2019
     </xref>). The main reason so many fails is the need for mechanisms for picking up signs of job dissatisfaction. If there is no opportunity to voice concerns, unhappy employees will inevitably start looking elsewhere (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-30">
      Derek et al., 2020
     </xref>). Job satisfaction has a moderately strong negative relationship with employees’ turnover intention (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-56">
      Kinicki, 2021
     </xref>). Therefore, the key antecedent of job satisfaction has recently resurged due to relevant implications for organizations in designing management strategies and, thus, reducing turnover and absenteeism and improving employee performance. Then, the following hypothesis is proposed:</p>
    <p>Hypothesis 4: Job satisfaction has a positively significant impact on teacher job retention.</p>
    <p>In educational context, teachers who experienced satisfaction at their school and satisfaction with the teaching profession were more likely to remain (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-79">
      Perrachione et al., 2008
     </xref>). In particular, previous studies have argued that perceived social support may play a prominent role in enhancing expatriate adjustment and performance in cross-cultural contexts (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-61">
      Lee et al., 2013
     </xref>). Given its significance, it is important to explore how different forms of perceived social support may be associated with job satisfaction and job retention (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-60">
      Lambert &amp; Hogan, 2010
     </xref>). This study assumes that individuals’ ability to adapt to high perceived social support has been positively related to their better job satisfaction and reduced turnover. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-74">
      Mwiti et al. (2021)
     </xref> indicated that job satisfaction is strongly associated with leaving the profession. This study assumes that when a teacher has highly perceived social support, it will strengthen the relationship between job satisfaction and teacher job retention. This assumption explains that when teachers have highly perceived social support, they intend to have a lower perception of leaving even if they are dissatisfied with the job. Therefore, the following hypothesis is proposed:</p>
    <p>Hypothesis 5: The link between job satisfaction and job retention is strong when the perceived social support is also high.</p>
    <p>The conceptual framework of this study aims at exploring the antecedents and consequences of job satisfaction on teachers’ job retention in HEIs in Cambodia. We also applied the existing theoretical background to explain the critical research hypotheses proposed in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">
      Figure 1
     </xref>. Indeed, the moderating role of perceived social support was explained to strengthen the relationship between job satisfaction and job retention.</p>
   </sec>
  </sec><sec id="s3">
   <title>3. Methodology</title>
   <sec id="s3_1">
    <title>3.1. Measurement Scales</title>
    <p>This study consists of five key research variables: compensation system, perceived organizational support, job involvement, job satisfaction, and job retention. The compensation system has five items adopted by <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-92">
      Shah (2019)
     </xref>. Perceived organizational support consists of 3 items adopted from <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-61">
      Lee et al. (2013)
     </xref>. Job involvement has six items adopted from <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-52">
      Kanungo (1982)
     </xref>. Perceived social support has four items adopted from <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-61">
      Lee et al. (2013)
     </xref>. Job satisfaction has seven items adopted from <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-103">
      Wanous and Lawler (1972)
     </xref>. Teacher’s retention has four items adopted from <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-9">
      Ashton (2018)
     </xref>. All questionnaire items used a 5-point scale and double-back translation (i.e., English-Khmer-English) to validate the meaning of the questionnaire translation, as attached in the Appendix.</p>
   </sec>
   <sec id="s3_2">
    <title>3.2. Sampling and Data Collection</title>
    <p>Non-probability sampling technique (i.e., purposive and snowball sampling) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-27">
      Cooper &amp; Schindler, 2014
     </xref>) was adopted to invite senior lecturer, assistant professors, associated professors, and professor to participate in the survey. A self-administered and online survey was also adopted to collect information from respondents. An unknown population is used to determine the sample sizes for this study. As recommended by <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-16">
      Bowerman et al. (2019)
     </xref> to collect data from HEIs, as shown</p>
    <p>
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    <p>This study applies structural equation modeling (SEM) to test the proposed research hypotheses. Thus, the formal sample size should be at least 196 respondents. We distributed 450 questionnaires to 58 HEIs, allowing us to invite their employees to participate in our survey. We received returns from 389 participants, including a formal 36 HEIs. However, 60 questionnaires were withdrawn because they contained serious missing data. Therefore, we selected 329 participants (with 329/389 = 84.57%) from 36 HEIs as the valid samples for this study. We requested each HEI to select 5 - 7 senior lectures, assistant professors, associated professors, and professors who are currently teaching full-time or part-time in HEIs to participate in the survey. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-91">
      Saunders et al. (2019)
     </xref> suggested that since mail survey questionnaires typically have a response rate between 30 and 50 percent, self-administered questionnaires should undoubtedly have a response rate of more than 50 percent. Therefore, the study viewed the response rate of 84.57 percent as satisfactory.</p>
   </sec>
  </sec><sec id="s4">
   <title>4. Results</title>
   <sec id="s4_1">
    <title>4.1. Frequency Distribution—Demography</title>
    <p>We used frequency analysis to condense and structure data pertaining to respondents’ personal information. Researchers frequently use frequency distribution as a data analysis approach because it offers a convenient overview of the data. This method offers precise values and percentages of certain variables targeted by the researcher (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-13">
      Bennett et al., 2022
     </xref>). Frequency analysis utilizes pie charts, bar charts, histograms, and cross-tabulations as effective methods for interpreting and analyzing respondents’ personal information, such as gender, age, employment, education, and income. The result of <xref ref-type="table" rid="table1">
      Table 1
     </xref> indicates that among 329 participants, 279 are male (84.8%) and 50 are female (15.2%). The findings showed that lecturers (163; 49.5%) were the dominant participants in this study. Indeed, about 66% of the participants (217) hold a master’s degree. Thus, more than 84% of male respondents have participated in this study.</p>
    <table-wrap id="table1">
     <label>
      <xref ref-type="table" rid="table1">
       Table 1
      </xref></label>
     <caption>
      <title>
       <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table 1. Demographic of the respondents.</title>
     </caption>
     <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="44.59%">Gender<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="17.14%">Frequency<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.99%">Percent<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="44.59%">Male<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="17.14%">279<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.99%">84.8<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="44.59%">Female<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="17.14%">50<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.99%">15.2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="44.59%">Total<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="17.14%">329<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.99%">100.0<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="75.72%" colspan="3">Position<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="44.59%">Senior Lecturers<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="17.14%">203<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.99%">61.6<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="44.59%">Assistant Professors<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="17.14%">14<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.99%">4.3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="44.59%">Associate Professors<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="17.14%">15<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.99%">4.57<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="44.59%">Professors<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="17.14%">13<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.99%">4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="44.59%">Head Department<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="17.14%">37<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.99%">11.25<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="44.59%">Vice-Head Department<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="17.14%">47<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.99%">14.28<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="44.59%">Total<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="17.14%">329<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.99%">100.0<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="75.72%" colspan="3">Educational Levels<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="44.59%">Master Degree<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="17.14%">217<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.99%">65.96<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="44.59%">Doctor of Philosophy<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="17.14%">65<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.99%">19.76<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="44.59%">Doctoral of Business Administration<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="17.14%">47<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.99%">14.29<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="44.59%">Total<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="17.14%">329<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.99%">100.0<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
     </table>
    </table-wrap>
   </sec>
   <sec id="s4_2">
    <title>4.2. Descriptive Statistics (n = 329)</title>
    <p>Descriptive statistics provide researchers with numerical and graphical methods for summarizing acquired data in quantitative terms. Furthermore, it helps the researcher streamline extensive data in a practical and logical manner (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-50">
      Jaggi, 2016
     </xref>). We utilized descriptive statistics to present the data, displaying the means, standard deviation, the overall background of respondents, and the variables created.</p>
    <p>
     <xref ref-type="table" rid="table2">
      Table 2
     </xref> shows that “perceived social support” has a mean value ranging from 3.65 (i.e., PSS1—My supervisor supports me with necessary human resources in my work) to 3.82 (i.e., PSS2-My supervisor supports me with necessary finances during my work). Thus, these research variables approach the level of “agree”. Indeed, the standard deviation of this study is less than 1, indicating that respondents’ perceptions of rating scores are not significantly different from each other. This data raises concerns about outliers.</p>
    <table-wrap id="table2">
     <label>
      <xref ref-type="table" rid="table2">
       Table 2
      </xref></label>
     <caption>
      <title>
       <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table 2. Descriptive statistics.</title>
     </caption>
     <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="29.94%">Variables<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="27.66%">Mean<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">Std. D<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="100.00%" colspan="3">Perceived Social Support<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.94%">PSS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="27.66%">3.65<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="42.41%">0.71<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">PSS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.82<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.68<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">PSS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.73<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.71<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="29.94%">PSS4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="27.66%">3.75<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="42.41%">0.76<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="100.00%" colspan="3">Compensation System<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.94%">COS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="27.66%">3.79<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="42.41%">0.80<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">COS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.84<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.74<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">COS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.85<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.75<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">COS4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.94<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.75<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="29.94%">COS5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="27.66%">3.67<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="42.41%">0.77<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="100.00%" colspan="3">Perceived Organizational Support<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.94%">POS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="27.66%">3.69<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="42.41%">0.87<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">POS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.68<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.90<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="29.94%">POS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="27.66%">3.80<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.85<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="100.00%" colspan="3">Job Satisfaction<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.94%">JOS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="27.66%">3.67<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="42.41%">0.76<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">JOS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.85<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.66<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">JOS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.62<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.75<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">JOS4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.59<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.76<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">JOS5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.82<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.69<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">JOS6<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.88<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.71<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="29.94%">JOS7<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="27.66%">3.65<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="42.41%">0.71<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="100.00%" colspan="3">Teacher’s Job Retention<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.94%">TRE1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="27.66%">3.96<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="42.41%">0.68<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">TRE2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.89<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.71<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">TRE3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.98<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.66<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="29.94%">TRE4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="27.66%">4.00<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="42.41%">0.67<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="100.00%" colspan="3">Job Involvement<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.94%">JOI1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="27.66%">4.01<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="42.41%">0.65<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">JOI2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.99<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.72<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">JOI3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.69<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.78<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">JOI4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.62<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.84<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">JOI5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.86<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.72<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="29.94%">JOI6<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="27.66%">3.64<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="42.41%">0.85<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
     </table>
    </table-wrap>
   </sec>
   <sec id="s4_3">
    <title>4.3. Factor Analysis and Reliability Test</title>
    <p>The purpose of performing factor analysis is to define the underlying structure among the research variables (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-41">
      Hair Jr. et al., 2019
     </xref>). To ensure a high level of validation for the results, we employ the following guidelines to assess the factor analysis process: 1) KMO &gt; 0.50 and Bartlett’s test is significant at p-value &lt; 0.05; 2) Communalities of each variable should be higher than &gt;0.5; 3) Factor Loading ≥ 0.60 or 0.70; 4) Eigenvalue ≥ 1; 5) Cumulative percentage &gt; 60%. This report also used the “Varimax rotation” and “Principal Component Extraction” methods to validate the meaning of research variables. Therefore, we may delete some research items if they have a factor loading score below 0.60 or communality values below 0.50. We adopted the factor analysis procedure to conduct the reliability test, leaving the items intact. We commonly apply the estimate of the coefficient Alpha, an indicator of convergent validity measurement, to evaluate the reliability of questionnaire items (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-43">
      Hair et al., 2010
     </xref>). According to Churchill Jr. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-24">
      Churchill Jr., 1979: p. 68
     </xref>), coefficient Alpha “absolutely should be the first measure one calculates to assess the quality of the instrument”. To assess its representation of structure, one should apply common factor analysis and reliability tests (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-44">
      Hair et al., 2021
     </xref>). We use two criteria for the reliability test to check the construct validity: 1) the item-to-total correlation must be at least 0.5; 2) the coefficient alpha (α) must be at least 0.6 (for an exploratory study) or 0.70 (for a confirmatory study) (see <xref ref-type="table" rid="table3">
      Table 3
     </xref>).</p>
    <table-wrap id="table3">
     <label>
      <xref ref-type="table" rid="table3">
       Table 3
      </xref></label>
     <caption>
      <title>
       <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table 3. The Threshold for Factor analysis and reliability test.</title>
     </caption>
     <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="46.68%">Factor analysis<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="28.43%">Threshold values<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="46.68%">1) Factor loading<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="28.43%">≥0.60 or 0.70<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="46.68%">2) KMO<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="28.43%">≥0.50<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="46.68%">3) Eigenvalue<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="28.43%">&gt;1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="46.68%">4) Commulative %<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="28.43%">≥60% or 70%<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="46.68%">Reliability Test<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="28.43%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="46.68%">1) Item-total correlation<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="28.43%">≥0.50<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="46.68%">2) Cronbach Alpha<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="28.43%">≥0.60 or 0.70<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
     </table>
    </table-wrap>
    <p>Source: <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-41">
      Hair Jr. et al. (2019)
     </xref>.</p>
    <p>According to <xref ref-type="table" rid="table3">
      Table 3
     </xref>’s threshold values applied to evaluate the results of <xref ref-type="table" rid="table4">
      Table 4
     </xref>, all questionnaire items are valid (i.e., all questionnaire items have an FL greater than 0.70) and reliability coefficient (α = 0.852, or 85.20% &gt; 70%). Thus, these research variables are reliable and valid for this study. According to <xref ref-type="table" rid="table4">
      Table 4
     </xref>, α = 0.85.</p>
    <table-wrap id="table4">
     <label>
      <xref ref-type="table" rid="table4">
       Table 4
      </xref></label>
     <caption>
      <title>
       <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table 4. The results of factor analysis and reliability—perceived social support.</title>
     </caption>
     <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
      <tr> 
       <td rowspan="2" class="acenter" width="13.91%">Code<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="55.22%" colspan="4">Factor analysis<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="30.87%" colspan="2">Reliability test<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="13.55%">FL<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="14.57%">KMO<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="11.53%">Eig.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="15.58%">CU%<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="13.55%">ITC<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="17.32%">α<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.91%">PSS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.55%">0.86<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="14.57%">0.81<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.53%">2.78<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="15.58%">69.39<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.55%">0.73<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="17.32%">0.85<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.91%">PSS4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.55%">0.84<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="14.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.53%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="15.58%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.55%">0.71<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="17.32%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.91%">PSS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.55%">0.84<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="14.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.53%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="15.58%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.55%">0.71<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="17.32%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.91%">PSS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.55%">0.78<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="14.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.53%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="15.58%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="13.55%">0.63<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="17.32%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
     </table>
    </table-wrap>
    <p>Note: FL = Factor loading (score), KMO = Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin, Eig. = Eigenvalue, CU% = Cumulative %, ITC = Item-total correlation, α = Cronbach Alpha.</p>
    <p>According to <xref ref-type="table" rid="table3">
      Table 3
     </xref>’s threshold values and <xref ref-type="table" rid="table5">
      Table 5
     </xref>’s results, all questionnaire items are valid (i.e., all items have an FL greater than 0.70) and reliability coefficient (α = 0.91, or 91% &gt; 70%). Thus, these research variables are reliable and valid for this study.</p>
    <table-wrap id="table5">
     <label>
      <xref ref-type="table" rid="table5">
       Table 5
      </xref></label>
     <caption>
      <title>
       <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table 5. The result of factor analysis and reliability—job involvement.</title>
     </caption>
     <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
      <tr> 
       <td rowspan="2" class="acenter" width="10.38%">Code<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="41.27%" colspan="4">Factor analysis<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="23.07%" colspan="2">Reliability test<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.13%">FL<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.89%">KMO<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="8.61%">Eig.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="11.65%">CU%<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.13%">ITC<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="12.94%">α<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.38%">JOI5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.13%">0.88<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.89%">0.90<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="8.61%">4.09<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.65%">68.18<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.13%">0.81<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="12.94%">0.91<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.38%">JOI1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.13%">0.85<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="8.61%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.65%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.13%">0.76<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.94%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.38%">JOI3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.13%">0.84<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="8.61%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.65%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.13%">0.76<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.94%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.38%">JOI2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.13%">0.81<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="8.61%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.65%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.13%">0.71<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.94%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.38%">JOI6<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.13%">0.80<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="8.61%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.65%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.13%">0.72<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.94%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.38%">JOI4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.13%">0.77<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="8.61%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.65%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.13%">0.68<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.94%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
     </table>
    </table-wrap>
    <p>According to <xref ref-type="table" rid="table3">
      Table 3
     </xref>’s threshold values and <xref ref-type="table" rid="table6">
      Table 6
     </xref>’s results, all questionnaire items are valid (i.e., all items have an FL greater than 0.70) and reliability coefficient (α = 0.92, or 92% &gt; 70%). Thus, these research variables are reliable and valid for this study.</p>
    <table-wrap id="table6">
     <label>
      <xref ref-type="table" rid="table6">
       Table 6
      </xref></label>
     <caption>
      <title>
       <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table 6. The result of factor analysis and reliability—teachers’ job retention.</title>
     </caption>
     <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
      <tr> 
       <td rowspan="2" class="acenter" width="11.77%">Code<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="41.89%" colspan="4">Factor analysis<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="22.88%" colspan="2">Reliability test<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.05%">FL<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.89%">KMO<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="9.38%">Eig.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="11.57%">CU%<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.05%">ITC<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="12.83%">α<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.77%">TRE3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.05%">0.92<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.89%">0.85<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="9.38%">3.19<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.57%">79.79<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.05%">0.85<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="12.83%">0.92<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.77%">TRE4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.90<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.81<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.83%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.77%">TRE2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.89<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.81<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.83%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.77%">TRE1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.86<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.76<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.83%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
     </table>
    </table-wrap>
    <p>According to <xref ref-type="table" rid="table3">
      Table 3
     </xref>’s threshold values and <xref ref-type="table" rid="table7">
      Table 7
     </xref>’s results, all questionnaire items are valid (i.e., all items have an FL greater than 0.70) and reliability coefficient (α = 0.89, or 89% &gt; 70%). Thus, these research variables are reliable and valid for this study.</p>
    <table-wrap id="table7">
     <label>
      <xref ref-type="table" rid="table7">
       Table 7
      </xref></label>
     <caption>
      <title>
       <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table 7. The result of factor analysis and reliability—Job satisfaction.</title>
     </caption>
     <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
      <tr> 
       <td rowspan="2" class="acenter" width="11.77%">Code<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="41.89%" colspan="4">Factor analysis<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="22.88%" colspan="2">Reliability test<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.05%">FL<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.89%">KMO<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="9.38%">Eig.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="11.57%">CU%<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.05%">ITC<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="12.83%">α<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.77%">JOS5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.05%">0.83<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.89%">0.89<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="9.38%">4.29<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.57%">61.25<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.05%">0.75<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="12.83%">0.89<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.77%">JOS6<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.81<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.72<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.83%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.77%">JOS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.80<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.71<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.83%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.77%">JOS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.79<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.70<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.83%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.77%">JOS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.76<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.67<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.83%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.77%">JOS7<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.76<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.66<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.83%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
     </table>
    </table-wrap>
    <p>According to <xref ref-type="table" rid="table3">
      Table 3
     </xref>’s threshold values and <xref ref-type="table" rid="table8">
      Table 8
     </xref>’s results, all questionnaire items are valid (i.e., all items have an FL greater than 0.70) and reliability coefficient (α = 0.79, or 79% &gt; 70%). Thus, these research variables are reliable and valid for this study.</p>
    <table-wrap id="table8">
     <label>
      <xref ref-type="table" rid="table8">
       Table 8
      </xref></label>
     <caption>
      <title>
       <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table 8. The result of factor analysis and reliability—perceived organizational support.</title>
     </caption>
     <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
      <tr> 
       <td rowspan="2" class="acenter" width="11.77%">Code<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="41.89%" colspan="4">Factor analysis<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="22.88%" colspan="2">Reliability test<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.05%">FL<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.89%">KMO<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="9.38%">Eig.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="11.57%">CU%<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.05%">ITC<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="12.83%">α<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.77%">POS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.05%">0.85<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.89%">0.70<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="9.38%">2.11<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.57%">70.17<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.05%">0.65<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="12.83%">0.79<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.77%">POS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.84<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.63<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.83%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.77%">POS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.83<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.61<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.83%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
     </table>
    </table-wrap>
    <p>According to <xref ref-type="table" rid="table3">
      Table 3
     </xref>’s threshold values and <xref ref-type="table" rid="table9">
      Table 9
     </xref>’s results, all questionnaire items are valid (i.e., all items have an FL greater than 0.70) and reliability coefficient (α = 0.91, or 91% &gt; 70%). Thus, these research variables are reliable and valid for this study.</p>
    <table-wrap id="table9">
     <label>
      <xref ref-type="table" rid="table9">
       Table 9
      </xref></label>
     <caption>
      <title>
       <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table 9. The result of factor analysis and reliability—compensation system.</title>
     </caption>
     <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
      <tr> 
       <td rowspan="2" class="acenter" width="11.77%">Code<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="41.89%" colspan="4">Factor analysis<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="22.88%" colspan="2">Reliability test<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.05%">FL<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.89%">KMO<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="9.38%">Eig.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="11.57%">CU%<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.05%">ITC<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="12.83%">α<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.77%">COS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.05%">0.90<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.89%">0.88<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="9.38%">3.72<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.57%">74.34<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.05%">0.84<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="12.83%">0.91<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.77%">COS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.88<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.80<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.83%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.77%">COS4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.87<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.78<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.83%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.77%">COS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.86<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.78<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.83%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.77%">COS5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.80<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.89%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.57%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="10.05%">0.70<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="12.83%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
     </table>
    </table-wrap>
   </sec>
   <sec id="s4_4">
    <title>4.4. Correlation Matrix</title>
    <p>Correlation is the measure of the size and direction of the linear relationship between the two variables, while squared correlation is the measure of the strength of the association between them (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-97">
      Tabachnick et al., 2018
     </xref>). The correlation matrix (<xref ref-type="table" rid="table10">
      Table 10
     </xref>) illustrates the interrelationship among key research variables as proposed in the conceptual framework. All of the variables in this study have a strong positive relationship with each other, as shown in <xref ref-type="table" rid="table10">
      Table 10
     </xref>. The Pearson correlation coefficient test with a two-tailed test gave this relationship with **p-value &lt; 0.01. We evaluated the correlation between the variables using the correlation matrix (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-96">
      Steiger, 1980
     </xref>). The study’s findings demonstrate that among these relationships, “perceived social support” exhibits a highly and strongly significant correlation with teachers’ job satisfaction, with a correlation coefficient of approximately r = 0.790, or 79.0%. Indeed, “compensation system” also has a strongly significant correlation with “teacher’s job satisfaction” with r = 0.716 or 71.6%, respectively. Thus, in HEI contexts, “compensation systems” and “perceived social support” play the most important roles in increasing teachers’ “job satisfaction” and “job retention”.</p>
    <table-wrap id="table10">
     <label>
      <xref ref-type="table" rid="table10">
       Table 10
      </xref></label>
     <caption>
      <title>
       <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table 10. The results of correlation matrix (n = 329).</title>
     </caption>
     <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="15.81%">Variables<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="9.38%"> 
        <math display="inline" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mover accent="true"> 
          <mi>
            X 
          </mi> 
          <mo>
            ¯ 
          </mo> 
         </mover> 
        </math><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="9.38%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="11.21%">1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="11.21%">2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="11.21%">3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="11.21%">4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="11.21%">5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="9.40%">6<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="15.81%">1-PSS<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="9.38%">3.74<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="9.38%">0.60<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.21%">1.00<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.21%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.21%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.21%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.21%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="9.40%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="15.81%">2-COS<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%">3.82<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%">0.65<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">0.712**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">1.00<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.40%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="15.81%">3-POS<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%">3.73<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%">0.73<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">0.364**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">0.371**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">1.00<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.40%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="15.81%">4-JOS<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%">3.73<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%">0.56<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">0.790**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">0.716**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">0.418**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">1.00<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.40%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="15.81%">5-TRE<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%">3.96<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%">0.61<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">0.616**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">0.636**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">0.332**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">0.682**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">1.00<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.40%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="15.81%">6-JOI<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%">3.80<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.38%">0.62<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">0.543**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">0.598**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">0.273**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">0.624**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="11.21%">0.657**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="9.40%">1.00<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
     </table>
    </table-wrap>
    <p>**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). 
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     </math> = Mean; S = Standard Deviation; PSS = Perceived social support; COS=Compensation system; POS = Perceived organizational support; TRE = Teacher job retention; JOI = Job involvement.</p>
   </sec>
   <sec id="s4_5">
    <title>4.5. Regression Analysis</title>
    <p>
     <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-97">
      Tabachnick et al. (2018)
     </xref> use regression to predict a score on one variable from a score on the other. Regression analysis describes the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-28">
      Daniels &amp; Minot, 2019
     </xref>). Correlation and regression are associative techniques that help researchers determine if there is a consistent and systematic relationship between two or more variables (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-44">
      Hair et al., 2021
     </xref>). We begin with the basic scenario of a linear relationship between a single dependent variable and a single independent variable, referred to as a simple regression analysis (Equation (1)). When more than one independent variable or multiple independent variables predict a single dependent variable, we refer to this as a multiple regression analysis (Equation (2)).</p>
    <p>Simple regression equation:</p>
    <p>
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     </math> (1)</p>
    <p>Multiple regression equation:</p>
    <p>
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     </math> (2)</p>
    <p>where:</p>
    <p>Y is the dependent variable.</p>
    <p>X is the independent variable.</p>
    <p>β<sub>0</sub> is the constant or y intercept.</p>
    <p>β<sub>1</sub> is the slope or coefficient on X.</p>
    <p>ε is the error term.</p>
    <p>Indeed, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-109">
      Zikmund et al. (2013)
     </xref> define a correlation coefficient as a statistical measure of covariation or association between two variables, indicating the regression weight between the independent and dependent variables. The correlation coefficient represents the power of the significant level of the relationship by considering the significant level of the p-value (i.e., **p &lt; 0.05, *p &lt; 0.1) of the Pearson correlation method.</p>
    <p>As suggested by <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-41">
      Hair Jr. et al. (2019)
     </xref> (i.e., <xref ref-type="table" rid="table11">
      Table 11
     </xref>), the significant relationship between independent variables and dependent variables, R<sup>2</sup> ≥ 0.10, F-value ≥ 4, and significant level of t-value ≥ |1.96| at p-value &lt; 0.05, respectively. The results of <xref ref-type="table" rid="table12">
      Table 12
     </xref> of multiple regression analysis showed that “Compensation System” has a positive significant contribution to teacher’s job satisfaction i.e.,— Model1: β<sub>1</sub> = 0.483***, t-value = 10.552 &gt; 1.96 and p-value = 0.000 &lt; 0.001, which Hypothesis 1 is accepted and supported. “Perceived organizational support” also has a positive significant impact on teacher’s job satisfaction—i.e., Model2: β<sub>2</sub> = 0.159***, t-value = 4.189 &gt; 1.96, and p-value = 0.000 &lt; 0.001, which Hypothesis 2 is accepted and supported.</p>
    <table-wrap id="table11">
     <label>
      <xref ref-type="table" rid="table11">
       Table 11
      </xref></label>
     <caption>
      <title>
       <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table 11. The threshold of regression analysis.</title>
     </caption>
     <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="24.94%">Criterion<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="31.03%">Threshold values<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="24.94%">R<sup>2</sup> (R-square)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="31.03%">≥0.10<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="24.94%">Adjusted-R<sup>2</sup><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="31.03%">≥0.10<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="24.94%">F-value<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="31.03%">≥4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="24.94%">t-value<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="31.03%">≥1.96<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="24.94%">Sign. p-value<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="31.03%">&lt;0.05<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
     </table>
    </table-wrap>
    <p>Source: <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-41">
      Hair Jr. et al. (2019)
     </xref>.</p>
    <table-wrap id="table12">
     <label>
      <xref ref-type="table" rid="table12">
       Table 12
      </xref></label>
     <caption>
      <title>
       <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table 12. The results of multiple regression.</title>
     </caption>
     <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
      <tr> 
       <td rowspan="2" class="acenter" width="40.03%">Independent variables<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="59.97%" colspan="3">Dependent variable “Job Satisfaction”<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="21.56%">β<sub>1</sub> (M1)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="19.20%">β<sub>2</sub> (M2)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="19.20%">β<sub>3</sub> (M3)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="40.03%">COS<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="21.56%">0.483***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="19.20%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="19.20%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="40.03%">POS<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="21.56%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%">0.159***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="40.03%">JOI<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="21.56%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%">0.291***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="40.03%">R<sup>2</sup><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="21.56%">0.513<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%">0.540<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%">0.595<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="40.03%">Adjusted-R<sup>2</sup><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="21.56%">0.512<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%">0.537<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%">0.591<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="40.03%">F-value<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="21.56%">344.902<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%">191.576<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%">158.833<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="40.03%">t-value<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="21.56%">10.552<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%">4.189<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%">6.592<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="40.03%">Sig. p-value<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="21.56%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td rowspan="2" class="acenter" width="40.03%">Hypotheses<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="21.56%">H1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%">H2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%">H3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="21.56%">Accepted<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%">Accepted<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="19.20%">Accepted<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
     </table>
    </table-wrap>
    <p>***p &lt; 0.001, **p &lt; 0.05, *p &lt; 0.1 and significant at t-value &gt; 1.96. Note: COS = Compensation system; POS = Perceived organizational support; JOI = Job involvement. M = Model; β = Beta coefficient.</p>
    <p>“Job Involvement” also has a positive significant impact on teacher’s job satisfaction—i.e., Model3: β<sub>3</sub> = 0.291***, t-value = 6.592 &gt; 1.96, and p-value = 0.000 &lt; 0.001, which Hypothesis 3 is accepted and supported. Thus, all three proposed research Hypotheses are well-supported for this study.</p>
    <p>The result of <xref ref-type="table" rid="table13">
      Table 13
     </xref> indicates that “Teacher’s job satisfaction” has a positive significant contribution to teacher’s job retention i.e.— Model4: β<sub>4</sub> = 0.682***, t-value = 16.859 &gt; 1.96 and p-value = 0.000 &lt; 0.001, which Hypothesis 4 is accepted and supported.</p>
    <table-wrap id="table13">
     <label>
      <xref ref-type="table" rid="table13">
       Table 13
      </xref></label>
     <caption>
      <title>
       <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table 13. The result of simple regression.</title>
     </caption>
     <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
      <tr> 
       <td rowspan="2" class="acenter" width="38.80%">Independent variable<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="61.20%">Dependent variable “Teacher Job Retention”<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="61.20%">β<sub>4</sub> (M4)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="38.80%">Job Satisfaction<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="61.20%">0.682***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="38.80%">R<sup>2</sup> (R-square)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="61.20%">0.465<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="38.80%">Adjusted-R<sup>2</sup><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="61.20%">0.463<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="38.80%">F-value<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="61.20%">284.222<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="38.80%">t-value<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="61.20%">16.859<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="38.80%">Sign. p-value<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="61.20%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="38.80%">Hypothesis<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="61.20%">H4 (Accepted)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
     </table>
    </table-wrap>
    <p>***p &lt; 0.001, **p &lt; 0.05, *p &lt; 0.1 and significant level of t-value &gt; 1.96.</p>
    <p>We adopt the <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-12">
      Baron and Kenny (1986)
     </xref> procedure to test the moderating effect of “perceived social support”. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-42">
      Hair et al. (2013)
     </xref> also recommended the rules of thumb of the hierarchical linear model, which indicated that R<sup>2</sup> &gt; 0.10, Adjusted-R<sup>2</sup> &gt; 0.10, F-value &gt; 4, t-value &gt; 1.96, and significant p-value &lt;0.05. The result of <xref ref-type="table" rid="table14">
      Table 14
     </xref> illustrates that the moderating effect of “perceived social support” has a significant effect on the relationship between job satisfaction and job retention, with β coefficients = 0.098** (or 9.8%), t-value = 2.283 &gt; 1.96, and p-value = 0.023 &lt; 0.05. Therefore, this study reasonably supports and confirms research hypothesis 5. This study concluded that when teachers perceive a high level of social support in their organization, the relationship between job satisfaction and job retention will be stronger.</p>
    <table-wrap id="table14">
     <label>
      <xref ref-type="table" rid="table14">
       Table 14
      </xref></label>
     <caption>
      <title>
       <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table 14. The result of moderating effect—Hypothesis 5.</title>
     </caption>
     <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
      <tr> 
       <td rowspan="2" class="acenter" width="50.43%">Research variables<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="49.57%" colspan="3">Dependent Variable— Job retention<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="16.45%">Model1-(β<sub>1</sub>)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="14.14%">Model2-(β<sub>2</sub>)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="18.98%">Model3-(β<sub>3</sub>)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="50.43%">Job satisfaction<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="16.45%">0.521***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="14.14%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="18.98%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="50.43%">Perceived social support<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="16.45%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="14.14%">0.204**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="18.98%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="50.43%">Job satisfaction*Perceived social support<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="16.45%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="14.14%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="18.98%">0.098**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="50.43%">R<sup>2</sup> &gt; 0.10<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="49.57%" colspan="3">0.481<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="50.43%">Adjusted-R<sup>2</sup> &gt; 0.10<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="49.57%" colspan="3">0.478<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="50.43%">F-value ≥ 4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="49.57%" colspan="3">158.877<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="50.43%">t-value ≥ 1.96<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="16.45%">8.271<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="14.14%">3.440<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="18.98%">2.283<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="50.43%">Significant of p-value &lt; 0.05<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="16.45%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="14.14%">0.001<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="18.98%">0.023<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
       <td class="acenter" width="50.43%">Durbin-Watson &gt; 1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
       <td class="acenter" width="49.57%" colspan="3">1.963<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      </tr> 
     </table>
    </table-wrap>
    <p>Note: ***p &lt; 0.001, **p &lt; 0.05 and significant at t-value &gt; 1.96.</p>
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         = 
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       <mn>
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         + 
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      </mrow> 
     </math> (3)</p>
    <p>a: Constant of β-value = 3.759.</p>
    <p>
     <math display="inline" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mrow> 
       <msub> 
        <mi>
          b 
        </mi> 
        <mrow> 
         <mi>
           X 
         </mi> 
         <mn>
           1 
         </mn> 
        </mrow> 
       </msub> 
      </mrow> 
     </math>: The independent variable of β-value coefficient = 0.521.</p>
    <p>
     <math display="inline" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mrow> 
       <msub> 
        <mi>
          c 
        </mi> 
        <mrow> 
         <mi>
           X 
         </mi> 
         <mn>
           2 
         </mn> 
        </mrow> 
       </msub> 
      </mrow> 
     </math>: The dependent variable of β-value coefficient = 0.204.</p>
    <p>
     <math display="inline" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mrow> 
       <msub> 
        <mi>
          d 
        </mi> 
        <mrow> 
         <mi>
           X 
         </mi> 
         <mn>
           3 
         </mn> 
        </mrow> 
       </msub> 
      </mrow> 
     </math>: The moderating variable of β-value coefficient = 0.098.</p>
   </sec>
  </sec><sec id="s5">
   <title>5. Discussion and Conclusion</title>
   <p>Existing research evidence confirms the relationship between the compensation system and job employees’ satisfaction (i.e., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-2">
     Adeoye &amp; Fields, 2014
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-11">
     Baqi &amp; Indradewa, 2021
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-48">
     Igalens &amp; Roussel, 1999
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-83">
     Rinny et al., 2020
    </xref>). The compensation system is significantly associated with enhancing teachers’ job satisfaction with their current teaching job in HEIs, Cambodia, according to this study. Thus, this research finding is in line with existing empirical evidence.</p>
   <p>Previous studies have confirmed the relationship between “perceived organizational support” and “job satisfaction” (i.e., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-15">
     Bogler &amp; Nir, 2012
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-62">
     Li et al., 2020
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-67">
     Maan et al., 2020
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-90">
     Sadaf et al., 2022
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-100">
     To &amp; Huang, 2022
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-106">
     Wen et al., 2019
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-111">
     Zumrah &amp; Boyle, 2015
    </xref>). In this study, perceived organizational support has a low significant impact on teacher’s job satisfaction in the HEI context in Cambodia. Thus, this research finding is consistent with existing empirical results.</p>
   <p>Existing empirical studies have confirmed the relationship between “job involvement” and “job satisfaction” (i.e., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-7">
     Al-Refaei et al., 2023
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-59">
     Kuruüzüm et al., 2009
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-105">
     Weissenberg &amp; Gruenfeld, 1968
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-108">
     Yuspahruddin et al., 2020
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-110">
     Zopiatis et al., 2014
    </xref>). The research finding indicates that job involvement has significantly contributed to teacher’s job satisfaction. From this perspective, among 329 teachers, there are 96 of them involved in their job, which leads to increased teaching job satisfaction in the HEI context.</p>
   <p>Previous research findings have confirmed the relationship between “job satisfaction” and “job retention” (i.e., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-18">
     Bryant &amp; Parker, 2020
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-80">
     Quek et al., 2021
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-82">
     Richter et al., 2022
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-88">
     Rose et al., 2023
    </xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-102">
     Vidal &amp; Olley, 2021
    </xref>). The research finding of this relationship shows that it is highly correlated. Among 329 teachers, there are 224 who express their perceptions about how their job satisfaction plays the most important role in enhancing their job retention in the HEI contexts. The results of the regression analysis found that all proposed research hypotheses are well-supported and significant. Indeed, job satisfaction among teachers plays a crucial role in enhancing their job retention. The compensation system appears to have the most significant influence on teachers’ job satisfaction. Overall, the compensation system, perceived organizational support, and job involvement serve as the key independent variables to predict teacher’s job satisfaction. Most importantly, job satisfaction serves as the key mediating variable to promote teacher’s job retention in HEI’s context, Cambodia. Similar research findings, job satisfaction is a requirement for the work performance of a total of 313 elementary school teachers in the Division of Misamis Occidental, the Philippines (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-10">
     Baluyos et al., 2019
    </xref>).</p>
   <p>The results of SEM, as illustrated in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="figS2">
     Figure S2
    </xref>, provide strong support for the four original research hypotheses in the conceptual model, even without testing the moderating effects. However, the research findings suggest that the research variable “job satisfaction” plays a critical role as both a direct and an indirect effect on “teachers’ job retention”. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-4">
     Al Sulaimi and Jantan’s (2024)
    </xref> study on 6740 female teachers in Oman also confirms this relationship. Job satisfaction is strongly correlated with teacher job retention (i.e., r = 0.63**, p &lt; 0.01) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-82">
     Richter et al., 2022
    </xref>). We tested the indirect effect of this study using Sobel’s test (i.e., <xref ref-type="fig" rid="figS3">
     Figure S3
    </xref> and <xref ref-type="table" rid="tableS3">
     Table S3
    </xref>, <xref ref-type="table" rid="tableS4">
     Table S4
    </xref>). As a result, this study concluded that “job satisfaction” plays a significant role as both a direct and indirect effect on teachers’ job retention in Cambodian HEIs. This implies that the research variables “compensation system”, “perceived organizational support”, and “job involvement” serve as crucial independent variables in predicting teachers’ job retention, with “job satisfaction” acting as a key mediating variable.</p>
  </sec><sec id="s6">
   <title>6. Research Limitation and Future Research</title>
   <p>“High teacher turnover in schools is a problem in many countries” (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-40">
     Gundlach et al., 2024: p. 1
    </xref>). This study focuses on teachers who hold part-time and full-time jobs at both private and public universities in Cambodia during the academic year 2022-2023-2024. However, 2022 was under COVID-19, and most universities reduced teaching hours, which may affect their individual pay and incomes. Indeed, we treat three research variables—“compensation system”, “perceived organizational support” and “job involvement”—as key independent variables, with job satisfaction serving as a mediating variable to predict teachers’ job retention. Indeed, “perceived social support” also modifies the relationship between “job satisfaction” and “job retention”. Indeed, among the 329 respondents, 61.6% were senior lecturers who had been teaching for more than 8 years. Indeed, multiple regression studies showed that teachers’ symptoms of burnout and job satisfaction predicted 27% of teachers’ burnout-related intentions to quit (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-68">
     Madigan &amp; Kim, 2021
    </xref>). The study suggests that job satisfaction may indirectly affect teacher outcomes, potentially leading to job loss or a lower-quality workforce, potentially affecting the education of young people and potentially causing teacher shortages (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-51">
     Jerrim, 2024
    </xref>). Therefore, future studies should investigate the symptoms of burnout and teacher’s job performance.</p>
   <p>Leader-member exchange theory (LMX) states that leaders create in-groups and out-groups, and those in the in-group will have a higher performance rating, less turnover, and greater job satisfaction. Leadership style is widely acknowledged as a crucial factor in enhancing job satisfaction among university teachers (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-73">
     Mgaiwa, 2023
    </xref>). Therefore, future research must incorporate LMX as a moderating effect between “job satisfaction” and “job retention”. Future research should utilize job Demands-Resources theory (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-38">
     Granziera et al., 2022
    </xref>) to analyze leadership styles, organizational cultures, and HRM practices in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).</p>
  </sec><sec id="s7">
   <title>Appendix—Questionnaire Design</title>
   <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="9.91%">N<sub>0</sub><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="29.74%">Questionnaire items<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="29.31%">Khmer Translation<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="16.88%">Authors<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="14.16%">Measured<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="68.97%" colspan="3">Compensation system—COS (ប្រព័ន្ធនៃការលើកទឹកចិត្ត)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td rowspan="6" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="16.88%">
      <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-92">
       Shah (2019)
      </xref><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td rowspan="6" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="14.16%">A-5 point Likert Scale: 1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="9.91%">COS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.74%">I am satisfied with the teaching payment rate that I receive<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.31%">ខ្ញុំពេញចិត្តនឹងអត្រាប្រាក់ម៉ោងបង្រៀនដែលខ្ញុំទទួលបាន<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">COS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">I earn more than others who do similar work at other universities.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">ខ្ញុំរកចំណូលបានច្រើនជាងអ្នកផ្សេងទៀតដែលធ្វើការងារស្រដៀងគ្នានៅសាកលវិទ្យាល័យផ្សេងទៀត<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">COS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">My teaching payment rate encourages me to improve the quality of my work<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">អាត្រាប្រាក់ម៉ោងបង្រៀនរបស់ខ្ញុំលើកទឹកចិត្តដល់ខ្ញុំក្នុងការជុំរុញកែលម្អគុណភាពនៃការងាររបស់ខ្ញុំ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">COS4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">I will receive a reward if I do something to improve teaching quality<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">ខ្ញុំ​នឹង​ទទួល​បាន​ស្នាដៃលើកទឹកចិត្តប្រសិន​បើ​ខ្ញុំ​ធ្វើ​អ្វី​មួយ​ដើម្បី​លើក​កម្ពស់​គុណភាព​បង្រៀន<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="9.91%">COS5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="29.74%">The benefits, such as vacation time and health insurance that I receive here are better than those I could get at similar universities.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="29.31%">អត្ថប្រយោជន៍ដូចជាការឈប់សម្រាក និងការធានារ៉ាប់រង សុខភាព (ឧទាហរណ៍៖​ ប.ស.ស) ដែលខ្ញុំទទួលបាននៅទីនេះគឺប្រសើរជាងអ្វីដែលខ្ញុំអាចទទួលបាននៅសាកលវិទ្យាល័យស្រដៀងគ្នា។<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="68.97%" colspan="3">Job Satisfaction—JOS (ការពេញចិត្តលើការងារ)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td rowspan="8" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="16.88%">
      <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-103">
       Wanous and Lawler (1972)
      </xref><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td rowspan="8" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="14.16%">A-5 Point Scale: 1 = Very Dissatisfied to 5 = Very Satisfied<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="9.91%">JOS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.74%">Pay for job<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.31%">ប្រាក់ទូទាត់សម្រាប់ការងារ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">JOS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">Freedom on the job<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">សេរីភាពលើការងារ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">JOS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">Prestige of job inside universities<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">កិត្យានុភាពនៃការងារនៅក្នុងសាកលវិទ្យាល័យ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">JOS4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">Feeling of security<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">អារម្មណ៍សុវត្ថិភាព<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">JOS5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">Opportunity for job growth<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">ឱកាសសម្រាប់ភាពរីកចំរើនលើការងារ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">JOS6<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">Opportunity for promotion<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">ឱកាសសម្រាប់ឋានៈការងារ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">JOS7<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">Feeling of accomplishment<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">អារម្មណ៍នៃសមិទ្ធិផលការងារ។<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="68.97%" colspan="3">Perceived social support—PSS (ទស្សនាទាននៃការគាំពៀរសង្គម)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td rowspan="3" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="16.88%">
      <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-61">
       Lee et al. (2013)
      </xref><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td rowspan="3" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="14.16%">A-5 point Likert Scale: 1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="9.91%">PSS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.74%">My supervisor supports me with necessary human resources in my working.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.31%">អ្នកគ្រប់គ្រងរបស់ខ្ញុំគាំទ្រខ្ញុំជាមួយនឹងធនធានមនុស្សចាំបាច់ក្នុងការងាររបស់ខ្ញុំ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">PSS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">My supervisor supports me with necessary finances during my working<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">អ្នកគ្រប់គ្រងរបស់ខ្ញុំជួយខ្ញុំជាមួយនឹងហិរញ្ញវត្ថុចាំបាច់ក្នុងអំឡុងពេលធ្វើការរបស់ខ្ញុំ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">PSS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">My supervisor cares about my feelings and encourages me.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">អ្នកគ្រប់គ្រងរបស់ខ្ញុំយកចិត្តទុកដាក់លើអារម្មណ៍របស់ខ្ញុំ ហើយលើកទឹកចិត្តខ្ញុំ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="16.88%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="14.16%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="9.91%">PSS4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="29.74%">My supervisor promotes me when I perform well.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="29.31%">អ្នកគ្រប់គ្រងរបស់ខ្ញុំលើកកម្ពស់ខ្ញុំនៅពេលខ្ញុំអនុវត្តន៍ការងារបានល្អ។<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="16.88%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="14.16%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="68.97%" colspan="3">Perceived organizational support—POS (ទស្សនាទាននៃការគាំពៀរពីស្ថាប័ន)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td rowspan="4" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="16.88%">
      <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-61">
       Lee et al. (2013)
      </xref><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td rowspan="4" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="14.16%">A-5 point Likert Scale: 1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="9.91%">POS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.74%">The organization values my contributions to its well-being.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.31%">ស្ថាប័នផ្តល់តម្លៃចំពោះការរួមចំណែករបស់ខ្ញុំចំពោះសុខុមាលភាពរបស់ស្ថាប័ន<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">POS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">My organization shows a great deal of concern for me<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">ស្ថាប័នរបស់ខ្ញុំបង្ហាញពីការព្រួយបារម្ភយ៉ាងខ្លាំងចំពោះខ្ញុំ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="9.91%">POS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="29.74%">The organization considers my goals and values<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="29.31%">ស្ថាប័នពិចារណាលើគោលដៅ និងតម្លៃរបស់ខ្ញុំ។<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="68.97%" colspan="3">Teacher’s Job Retention—TRE (ការថែរក្សាគ្រូបង្រៀន)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td rowspan="5" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="16.88%">
      <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-9">
       Ashton (2018)
      </xref><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td rowspan="5" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="14.16%">A-5 point Likert Scale: 1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="9.91%">TRE1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.74%">I will not plan to look for another job elsewhere, only in this current organization.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.31%">ខ្ញុំ​នឹង​មិន​មាន​គម្រោង​ស្វែង​រក​ការងារ​ផ្សេង​នៅ​កន្លែង​ផ្សេង​ទៀត​ទេ គឺ​មាន​តែ​ក្នុង​ស្ថាប័ន​បច្ចុប្បន្ន​នេះ​ប៉ុណ្ណោះ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">TRE2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">I am happy to have chosen my work in this current organization<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">ខ្ញុំសប្បាយចិត្តដែលបានជ្រើសរើសការងាររបស់ខ្ញុំនៅក្នុងស្ថាប័នបច្ចុប្បន្ននេះ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">TRE3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">I have made a correct choice to have a career in this current organization<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">ខ្ញុំបានធ្វើការជ្រើសរើសត្រឹមត្រូវដើម្បីបំពេញអាជីពការងារនៅក្នុងស្ថាប័នបច្ចុប្បន្ននេះ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="9.91%">TRE4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="29.74%">I will not work in other careers except in this current organization.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="29.31%">ខ្ញុំនឹងមិនធ្វើការក្នុងអាជីពផ្សេងទៀតទេ លើកលែងតែនៅក្នុងស្ថាប័នបច្ចុប្បន្ននេះ។<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="68.97%" colspan="3">Job involvement—JOI (ការពាក់ព័ន្ធលើវិស័យការងារ)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td rowspan="7" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="16.88%">
      <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-52">
       Kanungo (1982)
      </xref><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td rowspan="7" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="14.16%">A-5 point Likert Scale: 1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="9.91%">JOI1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.74%">The most important things that happen to me involve my present job.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="29.31%">រឿងសំខាន់បំផុតដែលកើតឡើងចំពោះខ្ញុំពាក់ព័ន្ធនឹងការងារបច្ចុប្បន្នរបស់ខ្ញុំ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">JOI2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">To me, my job is only a small part of who I am.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">ការងារ​របស់​ខ្ញុំ​គឺ​មាន​តែ​មួយ​ផ្នែក​តូច​ប៉ុណ្ណោះ​ដែល​ខ្ញុំ​មានទទួលខុសត្រូវ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">JOI3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">I am very much involved personally in my job.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">ខ្ញុំ​មាន​ការ​ចូល​រួម​យ៉ាង​យកចិត្តទុកដាក់​ក្នុង​ការ​ងារ​របស់​ខ្ញុំ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">JOI4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">Most of my interests are centered around my job.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">ចំណាប់អារម្មណ៍របស់ខ្ញុំភាគច្រើនផ្តោតលើការងាររបស់ខ្ញុំ<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">JOI5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">Leaving my employment is difficult because I’m emotionally attached.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">ការ​ចាក​ចេញ​ពី​ការងារ​គឺ​ពិបាក​ព្រោះ​ខ្ញុំ​មាន​មនោសញ្ចេតនាផ្សាភ្ជាប់ជាមួយការងារបច្ចុប្បន្ន<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
     <td class="acenter" width="9.91%">JOI6<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.74%">Usually I feel detached from my job.<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     <td class="acenter" width="29.31%">ជា​ធម្មតា​ខ្ញុំ​តែងតែផ្សាភ្ជាប់ទៅនឹងការងារដោយយកចិត្តទុកដាក់។<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
    </tr> 
   </table>
  </sec><sec id="s8">
   <title>Supplementary—Figures of CFA and SEM</title>
   <p>The purpose of conducting CFA is to double-confirm the reliability and validity of research items with exploratory factor analysis and reliability tests, as shown in <xref ref-type="table" rid="tableTables 4-9">
     Tables 4-9
    </xref>. The CFA procedures consisted of three steps: 1) creating a first-ordered factor model; 2) creating a second-ordered factor model; and 3) creating an overall factor model (i.e., refer to <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-20">
     Chanveasna et al., 2024
    </xref>). We also adopted Average Variance Extracted (AVE) and Composite Reliability (CR), as shown in <xref ref-type="table" rid="tableS1">
     Table S1
    </xref> &amp; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="figS1">
     Figure S1
    </xref>, to ensure the validity and reliability of the research constructs in this study. The CFA results indicated that all research constructs have high reliability and validity, with the best model fit assessment. We then used all the research items from the CFA stages to test the research hypotheses through SEM, as shown in <xref ref-type="table" rid="tableS2">
     Table S2
    </xref>.</p>
   <fig id="fig2" position="float">
    <label>Figure 2</label>
    <caption>
     <title>Figure S1. Overall model of CFA.</title>
    </caption>
    <graphic mimetype="image" position="float" xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="https://html.scirp.org/file/1769028-rId109.jpeg?20240829014957" />
   </fig>
   <fig id="fig3" position="float">
    <label>Figure 3</label>
    <caption>
     <title>Figure S2. SEM—original proposed model (without mediating effects).</title>
    </caption>
    <graphic mimetype="image" position="float" xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="https://html.scirp.org/file/1769028-rId110.jpeg?20240829014957" />
   </fig>
   <fig id="fig4" position="float">
    <label>Figure 4</label>
    <caption>
     <title>Note: Mediating effects of teacher’s job satisfaction.Figure S3. SEM—suggested model with mediating effects.</title>
    </caption>
    <graphic mimetype="image" position="float" xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="https://html.scirp.org/file/1769028-rId111.jpeg?20240829014957" />
   </fig>
  </sec><sec id="s9">
   <title>Supplementary—Tables of CFA and SEM</title>
   <table-wrap id="table15">
    <label>
     <xref ref-type="table" rid="table15">
      Table 15
     </xref></label>
    <caption>
     <title>
      <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table S1. The result of overall CFA.</title>
    </caption>
    <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="15.10%">Code<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="36.63%">Standardized Estimates<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="19.40%">t-value<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="17.24%">AVE<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="11.53%">CR<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="100.00%" colspan="6">Compensation System<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="15.10%">COS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="36.63%">0.804***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="19.40%">A<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td rowspan="5" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="17.24%">0.685<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td rowspan="5" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.53%">0.916<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="15.10%">COS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="36.63%">0.867***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="19.40%">18.426<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="15.10%">COS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="36.63%">0.879***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="19.40%">19.08<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="15.10%">COS4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="36.63%">0.829***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="19.40%">17.503<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="15.10%">COS5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="36.63%">0.754***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="19.40%">15.21<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="100.00%" colspan="6">Perceived Organizational Support<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="15.10%">POS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="36.63%">0.744***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="19.40%">A<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td rowspan="3" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="17.24%">0.558<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td rowspan="3" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.53%">0.791<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="15.10%">POS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="36.63%">0.759***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="19.40%">11.546<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="15.10%">POS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="36.63%">0.737***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="19.40%">11.383<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="100.00%" colspan="6">Job Involvement<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="15.10%">JOI6<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="36.63%">0.756***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="19.40%">A<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td rowspan="6" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="17.24%">0.629<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td rowspan="6" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.53%">0.910<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="15.10%">JOI5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="36.63%">0.855***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="19.40%">16.192<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="15.10%">JOI4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="36.63%">0.707***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="19.40%">14.454<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="15.10%">JOI3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="36.63%">0.800***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="19.40%">14.978<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="15.10%">JOI2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="36.63%">0.773***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="19.40%">14.45<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="15.10%">JOI1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="36.63%">0.856***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="19.40%">14.335<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="100.00%" colspan="6">Job Satisfaction<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="15.10%">JOS7<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="36.63%">0.699***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="19.40%">A<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td rowspan="7" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="17.24%">0.507<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td rowspan="7" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.53%">0.880<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="15.10%">JOS6<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="36.63%">0.755***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="19.40%">12.572<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="15.10%">JOS5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="36.63%">0.792***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="19.40%">13.209<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="15.10%">JOS4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="36.63%">0.655***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="19.40%">11.112<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="15.10%">JOS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="36.63%">0.636***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="19.40%">12.017<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="15.10%">JOS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="36.63%">0.729***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="19.40%">12.244<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="15.10%">JOS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="36.63%">0.707***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="19.40%">11.939<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="100.00%" colspan="6">Job Retention<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="15.10%">TRE1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="36.63%">0.798***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="19.40%">A<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td rowspan="4" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="17.24%">0.736<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td rowspan="4" class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.53%">0.917<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="15.10%">TRE2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="36.63%">0.854***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="19.40%">18.026<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="15.10%">TRE3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="36.63%">0.905***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="19.40%">19.374<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="15.10%">TRE4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="36.63%">0.870***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="19.40%">18.345<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
    </table>
   </table-wrap>
   <p>Note: AVE = Average variance extracted and CR (Composite Reliability) was calculated by <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-43">
     Hair et al. (2010)
    </xref>. ***p &lt; 0.001, which is significant level at t-value &gt; 1.96. A = parameter regression weight was fixed at 1.</p>
   <table-wrap id="table16">
    <label>
     <xref ref-type="table" rid="table16">
      Table 16
     </xref></label>
    <caption>
     <title>
      <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table S2. The result of SEM—suggested model (mediating effects).</title>
    </caption>
    <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.71%">Code<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="33.95%">Standardized Estimates<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="26.65%">t-value<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.62%">p-value<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.62%">SE<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="101.57%" colspan="5">Compensation System<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.71%">COS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="33.95%">0.806***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="26.65%">A<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">COS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.867***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">18.5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">COS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.879***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">19.145<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">COS4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.829***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">17.561<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.71%">COS5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="33.95%">0.754***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="26.65%">15.231<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="101.57%" colspan="5">Perceived Organizational Support<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.71%">POS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="33.95%">0.743***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="26.65%">A<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">POS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.758***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">11.511<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.71%">POS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="33.95%">0.737***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="26.65%">11.362<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="101.57%" colspan="5">Job Involvement<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.71%">JOI6<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="33.95%">0.758***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="26.65%">A<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">JOI5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.852***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">16.164<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">JOI4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.710***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">14.415<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">JOI3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.802***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">15.043<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">JOI2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.771***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">14.436<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.71%">JOI1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="33.95%">0.859***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="26.65%">14.438<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="101.57%" colspan="5">Job Satisfaction<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.71%">JOS7<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="33.95%">0.706***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="26.65%">A<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">JOS6<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.772***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">12.825<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">JOS5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.808***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">13.449<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">JOS4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.660***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">11.243<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">JOS3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.700***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">13.441<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">JOS2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.864***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">12.24<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.71%">JOS1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="33.95%">0.679***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="26.65%">11.529<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="101.57%" colspan="5">Job Retention<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.71%">TRE1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="33.95%">0.797***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="26.65%">A<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">TRE2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.854***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">17.998<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">TRE3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.905***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">19.334<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.71%">TRE4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="33.95%">0.870***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="26.65%">18.324<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.62%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="101.57%" colspan="5">Path Relationship—Original Model (Direct Effects)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.71%">H1<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="33.95%">0.55<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="26.65%">8.396***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.62%">0.051<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">H2<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.15<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">3.13**<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.002<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.037<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">H3<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.24<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">4.421***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.043<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.71%">H4<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="33.95%">0.47<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="26.65%">5.641***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.62%">0.09<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="101.57%" colspan="5">Path Relationship—Suggested Model (Mediating Effects)<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.71%">H5<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="33.95%">0.35<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="26.65%">5.721***<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.62%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.62%">0.051<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.71%">H6<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="33.95%">0.08<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="26.65%">1.102<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.270<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.62%">0.062<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
    </table>
   </table-wrap>
   <p>Note: ***p &lt; 0.001, **p &lt; 0.05 which is significant level at t-value &gt; 1.96. A = parameter regression weight was fixed at 1.</p>
   <table-wrap id="table17">
    <label>
     <xref ref-type="table" rid="table17">
      Table 17
     </xref></label>
    <caption>
     <title>
      <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table S3. The result of Sobel’s test.</title>
    </caption>
    <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="109.35%" colspan="6">Sobel’s test (1982) formula 
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           </mi> 
           <mi>
             b 
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           </msqrt> 
          </mrow> 
         </mfrac> 
        </mrow> 
       </math><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="53.44%">Relationships<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.10%">a<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.13%">b<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="11.60%">SE<sub>a</sub><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="10.16%">SE<sub>b</sub><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="13.93%">p-value<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="53.44%">Compensation System◊Job Satisfaction<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.10%">0.55<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.13%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="11.60%">0.051<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="10.16%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.93%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="53.44%">Job Satisfaction ◊Job Retention<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="10.10%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="10.13%">0.47<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="11.60%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="10.16%">0.09<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.93%"><p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="95.42%" colspan="5">z-test = 4.70<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.93%">0.000<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="aleft" width="109.35%" colspan="6">Remark: Significant level of Sobel’s test is z-test &gt; 1.96 and p-value &lt; 0.05 (Detail, refer to <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-22">
        Chet et al., 2022)
       </xref> and online calculation of the Sobel’s test also can be found at: <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-https://quantpsy.org/sobel/sobel.htm">
        https://quantpsy.org/sobel/sobel.htm
       </xref><p style="text-align:left"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
    </table>
   </table-wrap>
   <p>Note: a is the path coefficient of the relationship between the independent and the mediator variables. b is the path coefficient of the relationship between the mediator and the dependent variables. SE<sub>a</sub> is the standard error (SE) of the relationship between the independent and the mediator variables. SE<sub>b</sub> is the standard error (SE) of the relationship between the mediator and the dependent variables.</p>
   <table-wrap id="table18">
    <label>
     <xref ref-type="table" rid="table18">
      Table 18
     </xref></label>
    <caption>
     <title>
      <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.135639-"></xref>Table S4. The results of standardized total effects.</title>
    </caption>
    <table class="MsoTableGrid custom-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="20.01%">Variables<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="20.01%">Job Involvement<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="28.95%">Perceived Organizational Support<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="17.24%">Compensation System<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.79%">Job Satisfaction<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="100.00%" colspan="5">Standardized direct effects<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="20.01%">Job Satisfaction<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="20.01%">0.24<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="28.95%">0.15<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="17.24%">0.55<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.79%">0.00<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="20.01%">Job Retention<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="20.01%">0.35<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="28.95%">0.00<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="17.24%">0.08<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.79%">0.47<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="100.00%" colspan="5">Standardized indirect effects<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="20.01%">Job Satisfaction<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="20.01%">0.00<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="28.95%">0.00<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="17.24%">0.00<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.79%">0.00<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="20.01%">Job Retention<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="20.01%">0.11<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="28.95%">0.07<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="17.24%">0.26<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td acenter" width="13.79%">0.00<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-bottom-td custom-top-td acenter" width="100.00%" colspan="5">Standardized total effects<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="20.01%">Job Satisfaction<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="20.01%">0.24<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="28.95%">0.15<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="17.24%">0.55<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="custom-top-td acenter" width="13.79%">0.00<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="acenter" width="20.01%">Job Retention<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="20.01%">0.46<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="28.95%">0.07<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="17.24%">0.34<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
      <td class="acenter" width="13.79%">0.47<p style="text-align:center"></p></td> 
     </tr> 
    </table>
   </table-wrap>
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