Predictors of Primary School Teachers Organizational Commitment and Detecting Teachers Organizational Commitment, Occupational Commitment and Intent to Leave Levels
Hasan Uştu,Songül Tümkaya.
Abstract
The goal of this research is twofold. Firstly, describing primary school teachers' organizatinal commitment, occupational commitment and intent to leave levels than the second part is detecting teachers' predictors of organizational commitment. For this goals we questionnaired 712 primary school teacher in Şanlıurfa province in 2011-2012 education year. In order to meausurin gteachers' organizational commitment levels; Meyer, AllenandSmith's (1993) Organizational Commitment Scale, for ocupationoal commitment Blau 's (1985a) Occupational Commitment Scale and for intent to leave Cammann et al.'s (1979) Intent to Leave Scale(in the Michigan Organizational Assessment Questionnaire) were used. The results indicated that primary schoolt eachers' affective commitment is at the middle level, continuance commitment and normative commitment are at the low level. However teachers' occupational commitment and inten to leave are at the low level, too. At the same time we found that occupational commitment and seniority are the best predictors of affective commitment; only intent to leave is the best predictor of continuance commitment; occupational commitment, intent to leave and gender are the best predictors of normative commitment.
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