An Analysis of the Relationship between Organizational Commitment and Job Performance among Sport Teachers at High Schools in Ahvaz, Iran

The goal of this research is an analysis of the relationship between organizational commitment and job performance among sport teachers at high schools in Ahvaz. In terms of data collection, this study is of descriptive-measurement type. Since the aim of this research is an analysis and illustration of the significance of effects of the independent variable of organizational commitment on the dependent variable of job performance, the correlation method was adopted. The data collection tool was standard questionnaires that were distributed among all sport teachers (190 instructors) in Ahvaz. At the level of inferential statistics, the Pearson Correlation Coefficient was used to analyze the relationship between organizational commitment and its micro-scales with job performance; and the results showed that there is a significant relationship between organizational commitment and job performance among sport teachers at high schools in Ahvaz at the level of p<0.01. However, analysis of the three components of organizational commitment separately showed that among the components of affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment, only affective commitment has a significant relationship with job performance. Keywords: organizational commitment, job performance, physical education, sport teacher