Predictors of primary school teachers' organizational commitment and detecting teachers' organizational commitment, occupational commitment and intent to leave levels

The goal of this research is twofold. Firstly, describing primary school teachers' organizatinal commitment, occupational commitment and intent to leave levels then expose whether they changes according to age, gender, seniority, marital status, graduate level and class size or not. The second part of it is detecting teachers' predictors of organizational commitment. For this goals we questionnaired 712 primary school teacher in Şanlıurfa province in 2011-2012 education year. In order to meausuring teachers' organizational commitment levels; Meyer, Allen and Smith's (1993) Organizational Commitment Scale, for ccupationoal commitment Blau 's (1985a) Occupational Commitment Scale and for intent to leave Cammann at all's (1979) Intent to Leave Scale(in the Michigan Organizational Assessment Questionnaire) were used. The results indicated that primary school teachers' affective commitment is at the middle level, continuance commitment and normative commitment are at the low level. However teachers' occupational commitment and inten to leave are at the low level, too. Affective commitment was changed by teachers; age groups, graduation, seniority and class size and continuance commitment was changed by only teachers class size. However normative commitment didn't changed by teachers discused variables. Teachers occupational commitment was changed by; gender, age groups, marital status, seniority and teachers intent to leaves were changed by; gender, age, marital status, seniority and graduation levels. The second goal of the research was detecting teachers' predictors of organizational commitment. To this end we found that occupational commitment and seniority are the best predictors of affective commitment; only intent to leave is the best predictor of continuance commitment; occupational commitment, intent to leave and gender are the best predictors of normative commitment. Keywords:Teachers, organizational commitment, occupational commitment, intent to leave, predicting.