Medium effect of organizational identity on the relationship between emotional commitment and intention to leave: Implementation in MEB Tunceli schools

Achieving the desired goals in education depends on the attitudes and behaviors of teachers. Teachers' commitment to their profession in education and training services is related to their organizational commitment to the school they teach. Expectations from educators can change, especially when the region they serve and the social structure and culture are taken into account. In order for educators to meet these expectations, they must first have positive attitudes and behaviors towards their professions and organizations. The decrease in these positive attitudes and behaviors of educators towards school and their profession is one of the important problems of today's education system. Because, the attitudes of educators towards their schools and professions are extremely important in achieving the goals of the school. It is known that educators with high commitment to the organization and their profession make more effort in fulfilling their duties and achieving the goals of the school. In this study, it is aimed to investigate whether organizational identity has a mediating effect on the relationship between the emotional commitment levels of teachers working in the Ministry of National Education in Tunceli and their intention to leave. For this purpose, the questionnaire, which is a scale of organizational commitment, leaving the job and organizational identity, was applied to 240 teachers working in primary, secondary and high schools, which are official educational institutions affiliated to the Ministry of Education in the city center of Tunceli. The data obtained from the data collection tools were evaluated in the computer environment using the Statistical Package for Social Science for Windows (SPSS) package program. As a result of the research, it was determined that organizational identity has a full mediating effect between teachers' emotional commitment levels and their turnover intentions.