Abstract
ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT LEVELS OF STATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS
In this research the organizational commitment levels of teachers serving in state elementary schools were examined. The sampling of the research consisted of 196 teachers serving in 6 state elementary schools in one of the districts of İstanbul in 2011-2012 education year. The organizational commitment scale adapted by Kurşunoğlu, Bakay and Tanrıöğren (2010) was used to collect the main data. Organizational commitment was examined as emotional, continuance and normative commitment and the organizational commitment levels of state elementary school teachers were examined in terms of variables such as subject area, seniority, service year in the same school, membership of syndicate. Teachers who were not members of a teacher syndicate were found to have higher continuance and normative commitment than those who were members of a syndicate. It was revealed that teachers who have higher service year have also higher emotional commitment. Teachers from different subject areas didn’t show significant differences in their attitudes towards their emotional, continuance and normative commitment.
Keywords
Elementary school, organizational commitment, elementary school teachers
