Investigation of organizational commitment of staff who works in youth services and sports provincial directorate

The purpose of this study was to determine the level of the organizationalcommitment for the staff that working in the Eastern Anatolia Region in the ProvincialDirectorate of Youth Services and Sports. 194 men and 45 women in a total of 239 peopleparticipated in the research from the eight provinces in the Eastern Anatolia region(Erzurum, Erzincan, Elazığ, Kars, Bayburt, Hakkâri, Bitlis, Ağrı). In research, to measurethe organizational commitment, the scale of the organizational commitment developed byAllen and Meyer (1990) and, composed of twenty questions was used. While some of thequestionnaires were filled by the method of face to face, some of the participants werereached by the way of the postal service and the questionnaires were gathered.SPSS 16 was used for all the statistical analysis. Significance level was acceptedp<0.01 and p<0.05 to determine the demographic characteristics. Firstly frequency tablewas obtained and Chi-square analysis was carried out.SPSS 16 was used for all the statistical analysis. Significance level was acceptedp<0.01 and p<0.05 to determine the demographic characteristics. Firstly frequency tablewas obtained and Chi-square analysis was carried out.The differences between the answers given to questions of organizationalcommitment were determined as very significant (p<0.01). The answer rates that showpresence of organizational commitment were found higher than the answer rates thatdoesn't show presence of organizational commitment. On the other hand the totalinsufficient and partially sufficient answer ratio of the question about sufficiently incomelevel of the employees was calculated as 79.9 %. The differences between the answerswere found as highly significant (p <0.01).Key Words: Organizational Commitment, Provincial Directorate of Youth Services andSports, Personnel.