Organizational Commitment in Relation to Demographic Characteristics among Lecturers Working at Libyan Universities
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 12
Abstract
This study proposes to examine organizational commitment of lecturers working at Libyan universities in terms of their demographic characteristics. Data of the research was collected through questionnaire technique. In the data gathering process, the aim of the research was explained to the lecturers and data was collected who voluntarily accepted to attend the research. At the end of the data gathering process 140 lecturers who are working at Libyan universities attended the research. In the questionnaire used in the research, there are demographic questions in the first part and there are questions about organizational commitment level of employees in the second part. For measuring demographic characteristics of lecturers, gender, marital status, age, seniority and university as organization were selected as demographic characteristics. For measuring organizational commitment levels of lecturers, Organizational Commitment Scale of Meyer, Allen and Smith (1993) was used. Organizational Commitment Questionnaire-OCQ was firstly developed by Allen and Meyer (1990) as a 24 item scale and then, revised by Meyer, Allen and Smith (1993) as a shortened 18 item scale. Also, the scale consists of three dimensions as affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment. The reliability of the scale was analyzed by Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient and its validity was analyzed by factor analysis. In this study, by using the variance and t-test analyses, how the organizational commitment level of lecturers vary in terms of their demographic characteristics have examined.
Authors and Affiliations
Hassan R. H. Elkhdr, Aysun KANBUR
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