Relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment of teachers working at vocational and technical high schools

In this study, "The Relationship Between Job Satisfaction Levels and Organizational Commitment of Teachers Working at Vocational and Technical Secondary Education Institutions" has been examined. The main problem of the research is to identify whether there is a meaningful correlation between job satisfaction levels and organizational commitment of teachers working in vocational and technical secondary education institutions. Subject, aim, importance, problems, scope and limitations of the research are defined in the introduction section. The Theoretical framework and theoretical approaches are explained in the second section. The Method is mentioned in the third section. Findings and their evaluation are elaborated in the fourth section. Conclusions and recommendations are presented in the last section of this study. Within the scope of this study, answers to sub-problems of the study have been sought by analysing data gathered from 655 teachers (380 female and 275 male) working in vocational and technical secondary institutions from 6 different districts that have been selected by stratified sampling method in the city of İzmir. In the conclusion of this study, it has been discovered that there is a high-positive correlation between "Job Satisfaction Levels and Organizational Commitment of the teachers. It has been assessed that both the teachers of Atelier and Laboratory (Vocational) teachers and the teachers of general culture (non-vocational) lessons teachers had high level of job satisfaction and their organizational commitment was moderate. The education level of the teachers does not have any a significant difference on their job satisfaction and organizational commitment. On the other hand, professional seniority and gender have been defined as a significant variable that differentiates both job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Although the age of teachers did not differentiate job satisfaction, it was a factor that differentiated organizational commitment.