Postgraduate thesis a research as to the interaction between the job satisfaction and organizational commitment of the teachers working at private teaching institutions

The aim of this study is to determine the Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment of the teachers working at private teaching institution, to analyze the relationship between these two variables and to assert these variables? relationship with other demographical variables. In this direction; the term of job satisfaction will be identified at first section. Additionally, its relationship with similar concepts, the theories related to job satisfaction, job satisfaction measurement techniques and the factors affecting job satisfaction will be explained at the same section. At second section; the term of organizational commitment will be dealt and its relationship with similar concepts, organizational commitment approaches, the classification of organizational commitment and the factors affecting organizational commitment will be explained. At third section; job satisfaction enhancing methods will be mentioned by explaining the interaction between job satisfaction and organizational commitment. At last section; an application will be figured aiming at analyzing the relationship between the so-called concepts. The sample of this study is consisted of the teachers working at private teaching institutions. 150 surveys have been made at seven private teaching institutions. The scales as to job satisfaction and organizational commitment and information form as to demographical features have been used. JDI-Job index developed by Smith, Kendall and Hulin in 1969 and translated into Turkish by Ergin in 1987 has been used in order to measure job satisfaction. The reason why this scale has been used is that it is used for teaching assistants at previous studies and that its availability has been certified. 19 phrases are included in the scale and these phrases have been evaluated with 7 point likert scale changing between ?Strongly Disagree? and ?Strongly Agree?. Three dimensional organizational commitment scale developed by Ailen and Meyer has been used in order to measure organizational commitment level. Sub-factors of the scale are emotional commitment, progression commitment and normative commitment. 7 point likert scale has been used in this scale as well. According to the obtained data; it is seen that there is a mutual relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment and that these concepts are connected with the variables affecting the organizations such as change, business volume, not being on the job and business performance. On the other hand, while worker gives positive feelings to the organizations at which he/she work, there is a possibility that worker may be in a bad way because of a certain business. Keywords: Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Teachers working at Private Teaching Institutions