Mental Health Matters: Impact of Mental Health on Work Performance, Organizational Commitment, and Turnover Intentions among Employees in an Educational Institution

Employees are widely regarded as an organization's most valuable asset and its success's backbone. An educational institution must therefore place a greater emphasis on the mental health of its employees in the workplace in order to continue providing quality services to clients and students. The purpose of this study is to determine, utilizing a mixed-methods research design, if mental health impairment has an impact on the individual work performance, affective organizational commitment, and turnover intentions of employees. Worker Mental Health Questionnaire, Individual Work Performance Questionnaire, Affective Organizational Commitment Questionnaire, and Turnover Intention Scale (TIS-6) were completed by 80 teaching and non-teaching employees of an educational institution who were selected using convenience sampling. The socioeconomic and demographic characteristics were also statistically analyzed using the T-Test, while the main variables were analyzed using Regression Analysis. According to the findings, mental health impairment has a negative impact on individual work performance and affective organizational commitment, and a positive impact on employee turnover intentions. This demonstrates that when employees have good mental health, they will have a higher work performance, a stronger commitment to their organization, and a greater intention to remain in the educational institution. Finally, it is suggested that the institution prioritize the development and implementation of policy recommendations and program reforms pertaining to mental health in the institution.