Relationship between organizational and occupational commitment and job turnover intention of private school teachers

The purpose of this research is to investigate relationship between the organizational and occupational commitment of private school teachers and their intention of job turnover. This study, carried out by the academic year of 2016-2017. The sample is consisted of 230 teachers -159 female and 71 male - who worked at private schools in different provinces of Istanbul. Occupational Commitment Scale, Organizational Commitment Scale and Job Turnover Scale were used for data collection. As a result of ANOVA analysis, it was found that the level of affective commitment of teachers was greater than continuence and normative commitment. The results show that there were no significant relationship among occupatinal commitment and teachers' age, gender, service year, branch, income, merital status. At the end of the analysis, ıt was also found that there was a high, negative, and significant correlation among teachers' organizational and professional commitment and job turnover. Keywords: Organizational Commitment, Occupational Commitmet, Affective Commitment, Continuance Commitment, Intention of Teacher's Job Turnover.