AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF LECTURERS' ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT IN TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL COLLEGES IN IRAN

With the purpose of determining the levels of lecturers' organizational commitment (affective, normative and continuance) based on gender, employment type, marital status, and academic rank, the current research has been performed in Technical and Vocational Colleges in four provinces of Fars,...

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Published inResearchers world - journal of arts science and commerce Vol. 3; no. 1; p. 1
Main Authors Nazari, Khosrow, Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah Bte Lope, Basri, Ramli Bin, Idris, Khairuddin Bin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Malegaon Educational Research Multimedia & Publications 01.01.2012
Subjects
Demographics
Employee complaints
Higher education
Job satisfaction
Organizational behavior
Studies
Variables
Working conditions
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Summary:With the purpose of determining the levels of lecturers' organizational commitment (affective, normative and continuance) based on gender, employment type, marital status, and academic rank, the current research has been performed in Technical and Vocational Colleges in four provinces of Fars, Khuzestan, Boushehr, and Kohgilouyeh and Boyerahmad in Iran. A survey-based descriptive research with the analysis of mean, standard deviation, frequency and percent and four t-tests were utilized to measure organizational commitment of 295 lecturers. The relevant literature shows little studies pertaining lecturers' commitment of higher learning institutions in Iran. Considering the importance of lecturers' organizational commitment; educational leaders, policy makers and academic administrators should take necessary measures to make their core workforce highly committed. This study has contributions to fill the gap of theoretical and empirical knowledge and improve understanding of organizational commitment issue. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:2229-4686