ABSTRACT JOB SATISFACTION AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT LEVEL OF ELEMANTARY SUPERVISORS

TOK, N. Trkay Ph.d. Thesis, Department of Educational Science Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ali Balc June 2004, 241+x Pages

This research is concerning the level of job satisfaction and organizational commitment of elemantary supervisors; Elemantary supervisor attitudes on factor of job satisfaction (work and contents, salary, administration and evalution, development and advancement oppurtunites, organizational environment) and on factors of organizational commitment (affective commitment and continuance commitment) in terms of sex, tenure, age and educational level were examined whether there is a significant difference. The aim of this study is to enlightment of causes and results of attitudes towards job satisfaction and organizational commitment which causes the turnover, performance deficiency and absenteeism of elemantary supervisors. The population of the study is 2882 elemantary supervisors who are studying at 81 different cities in Turkey. The sample of the study which is 329 elemantary supervisors from 14 cities is randomly selected from the population. n order to determine the participants job satisfaction level and organizational commitment level, a questionnaire containing two parts was developed. The first part about job satisfaction has 35 items while the second part considering organizational commitment has 12 items. The questionnaire has totally 47 items. SPSS packet program was used to anallyze the data. For determining the attitudes of elemantary supervisors about job satisfaction and organizational commitment, all aspects of the questionnaire were considered

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item by item. As a result, mean scores of items in a factor, and means of factors are calculated. n order to determine whether participants attitudes are change at 0.05 level one way ANOVA has been run. To understand the reason of the variation, Scheffe-F has been run, and in order to determine if there is significiant relationship between the factors of job satisfaction and organizational commitment bivariate correlation (Pearson-r) has been run. As a result of the data analysis, these are concluded: In considering the job satisfaction of elemantary supervisors in general, the participants have medium level job satisfaction in the aspects of work and contents ( X =3.19) and organizational environment ( X =2.85), and they have little level job satisfaction from salary ( X 1.95), development and advancement oppurtunites ( X =2.21) and administration and evalution ( X =2.59). In other words, elemantary supervisors have not had enough job satisfaction. Although work and contents is the aspect in which the participants have the most job satisfaction. The salary and development and advancement oppurtunites are considered as the participants have least job satisfaction. Elemantary supervisors are little agree with continuance commitment ( X =2.61) which is the aspect of organizational commitment however they are mostly agree with affective commitment ( X =3.74). There is significiant relationship between work and contents and affective commitment (r= .457, P<.01), and a continuance commitment (r= .228, P<.01), and also there is significiant relationship between salary and continuance commitment (r= .218, P<.01). However, there is no significiant relationship between salary and affective commitment (r= -.045, P<.01). Both affective commitment (r= .260, P<.01) and continuance commitment (r= .304, P<.01) have significiantly related with administration and evalution. Both affective commitment (r= .158, P<.01) and continuance commitment (r= .345, P<.01) have significiantly related with development and advancement oppurtunites. Finally, both affective commitment (r= .244, P<.01) and continuance commitment (r= .344, P<.01) have significiantly related with organizational environment.

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