Abstract:
The aim of this research was to study organizational commitment based on personal characteristics of physical education teachers in Mashhad. The statistical population of this study was all the Physical Education teachers in Mashhad (N=1200) which based on Morgan Table, the size of statistical sample was calculated as 291 teachers. For gathering data, Organizational commitment questionnaire, the validity of which was achieved through considering comments of professors in sport management and its reliability using Cronbach's alpha 0.85 were obtained. The research method is descriptive which has been done through field method. Descriptive scales and KolmogorovSmirnov statistical tests, IndependentSamples T-Test, ANOVA, Tukey Post Hoc and Pearson correlation coefficient were used to analyze the data. Results showed that there is no significant difference between the organizational commitment of teachers based on gender and marital status (P>0.05). The organizational commitment of physical education teachers in elementary school was lower than guidance school and high school levels, respectively. On the other hand, results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between age and teaching experience with teachers’ organizational commitment.
Machine summary:
However, results showed that from the aspect of age, experience, marital status, education field and employment, there is no significant difference in the level of organizational commitment of employees (Poursoltani et al.
Taravian (2006) in the study of high school teachers in Isfahan found that there is a significant difference in the teachers’ commitment, according to demographic factors (gender, education level, service experience and teaching field) (Taravian.
In Karslh and iskender research (2009) between organizational commitments of teachers based on teaching level, no significant difference had been seen (Karslh & iskender.
According to the results of table 2, there is no significant difference between male and female teachers’ organizational commitment and single and married teachers.
In this field, Hamidi (2001), Kozehchian et al (2003) and Talebpour and Emami (2007) didn’t achieve to a significant relationship between educational level and organizational commitment.
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