Examination of the organizational commitment and the levels of job satisfaction in accordance with specific variables

WOS: 000292127400017In this survey, organizational commitment and levels of job satisfaction have been examined in accordance with the variables of gender, age, length of service (seniority) and current school of the physical education teachers. The physical education teachers involved in the survey from the provinces of Adana, Osmaniye and Kahramanmaras are 353 teachers in total. The personal information form of 12 questions has been used in order to determine Individuals' personal characteristics, Organizational Commitment Questionnaire of 6-scale and 23 items has been used in order to determine organizational commitment levels, and Minnesota Job Satisfaction Measurement of 20 questions has been used to determine the job satisfaction levels. The arithmetical averages and standard deviation of the points coming from Organizational Commitment Questionnaire and Minnesota Job Satisfaction Measurement have been taken into account. Analysis methods which will be used to determine the differences among the groups have been specified by the help of Kaiser Meier-Olkin Test and Barlett's Test. Factor loads and Cronbach Alpha Coefficients have been determined. Mann-Whitney U in order to detect difference in the groups having two parts, in multiple groups Kruskal-Wallis H has been used. Meaningfulness level is presumed as 0.05. Consequently, a meaningful difference has been found out between the length of service and job satisfactions of the physical education teachers and also a significant difference has been observed between the level of their current school and both job satisfaction and organizational commitment