Relations among mobbing levels, organizatonal commitment and job satisfaction of music teachers working in elementary schools

The purpose of this study is to determine the relation among the levels of elementary school music teachers being subject to mobbing, their organizational commitment, and their job satisfaction. This research is carried out through relational model of screening. The research sample consists of 308 music teachers working in elementary schools of the Ministry of National Education in city centers in the 2009-2010 school year. 248 music teachers (136 female and 112 male) from elementary schools found in Ankara?s center generate the research environment. The music teachers, who have voluntarily took part in this research, have taken the Negative Behaviour Scale to determine the mobbing level, the Organizational Commitment Scale to determine the organizational commitment level and the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire to determine the job satisfaction level. At first, through the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) Test, whether the data was relevant to the regular distribution. In cases where it was relevant, when comparing two groups the Independent Sample T Test, when comparing more than two groups the One-Way ANOVA was carried out. By the end of the variance analysis, in order to designate the different groups the Tukey test from the multiple comparisons tests, in order to compare the groups for the variance homogeneity assumption the Levene test was carried out to specify which test statistics will be taken into consideration. As a means to put forward the relation structure of the research, path analyses related to coefficients of correlation was performed. To specify the predictive among the variables, the regression analysis was conducted. Results of the research analysis were remarked as 0,05 level of significance; for the analyses SPSS 18.0 (PASW 18.0) and LISREL software were used.The following findings were reached to through this research; around one fourth (24,6%) of the elementary school music teachers of the Ministry of National Education in Ankara?s center were subjected to mobbing. Level of subjection to mobbing of the music teachers does not show any difference according to gender, age, marital status, seniority, or educational background. Organizational commitment differs among adults (ages 22-30), middle-aged adults (ages 31-39), and seniors (ages 40 and above). Findings also point out that according to their marital status, within the compatibility lower dimension, widow or divorced music teachers show less compatibility in comparison to their married or single colleagues; within the identification lower dimension, married music teachers show less identification in comparison to single teachers who show more identification in comparison to their widow or divorced colleagues; according to seniority, within the internalization lower dimension, music teachers having worked for 15 years or less show less internationalization than their colleagues who worked for 16 years or more. Findings of this research show that job satisfaction was high for 54% of the music teachers whereas 41,9% of them was moderate and 0,4% was low. With this research, it?s been observed that variables of mobbing, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction are interrelated.Factors of negative behavior, being subject to mobbing, and organizational commitment together with job satisfaction have negative relation of significance. This condition reflects the fact that being subject to mobbing reduces organizational commitment and job satisfaction. On the other hand, in a similar way, the lower dimensions of the factors of organization commitment and job satisfaction, which are compatibility, identification, internalization, internal and external job satisfaction levels, have a negative effect on the mobbing variable. It?s been determined that among these lower dimensions, mobbing is effective on the compatibility lower dimension and respectively on external and internal job satisfaction, identification and internalization lower dimensions.Key words: Mobbing, organizational commitment, job satisfaction