The Effect of Financial Situation on Continuance Commitment: Research with Public Employees

Scirj Volume II, Issue II, February 2014 Edition
ISSN: 2201-2796

The Effect of Financial Situation on Continuance Commitment: Research with Public Employees

Ayşe Esmeray YOĞUN

Abstract: Commitment is a very important term for all organizations. Especially teacher’s commitment is related with their self-effort to the quality of the education service. Most of the commitment research use Allen & Meyer scale. In Allen Meyer scale, commitment is defined with three dimensions: emotional commitment, normative commitment and continuance commitment. For this research continuance commitment will be focused to understand the relationship between employee’s financial (credit loan and possession status) situation and their organizational commitment. It is assumed that especially financial burdens are the driver for continuance commitment. So from this view, it is questioned, if continuance is a kind of commitment or obligation. Main research problem of this current study is to clarify teacher’s continuance commitment and it’s relation with financial dependency for public workers. Sample of the study is working teachers at public schools in Turkey. 240 of those teachers were completed questionnaire for the research. Descriptive statistics and t test features of the SPSS 16.00 version is used for the data analysis.

Reference this Paper: The Effect of Financial Situation on Continuance Commitment: Research with Public Employees by Ayşe Esmeray YOĞUN published at: "Scientific Research Journal (Scirj), Volume II, Issue II, February 2014 Edition, Page 6-14 ".

Search Terms: Commitment, continuance commitment, emotional commitment, normative commitment, loan and rent status, financial status, teachers

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