Analysis of the relationship between organizational commitment and counter productive work behaviour on academicians

This study investigates the relationship between counterproductive work behaviour and organizational commitment which is one of the problems that organizations frequently face with in recent years. The relationship between affective commitment, normative commitment and continnuance commitment from organizational commitment dimensions and abuse, production deviance, sabotage, theft and withdrawal from counterproductive work behaviour are examined one by one. Whether the demographic characteristics of the participants shows or not with the level of organizational commitment and counterproductive work behaviour in terms of frequency presentation is examined. The study has been conducted with the participation of 219 academic staff working at Dumlupınar University. In the study, a correlation analysis is performed to determine the relationship between the variables. Furthermore, Kruskall-Wallis H and Mann-Whitney U tests are conducted to determine their association with demographic variables. As a result of the analyses this study detects that affective commitment and normative commitment dimensions have negative direction and significant relationship with the withdrawal and abuse dimensions. Additionally, the negative direction and significant relationships are found between continuance commitment and withdrawal, abuse, theft dimension. Keywords: Academic Staff, Counterproductive Work Behaviour, Dumlupınar Unıversity, Organizational Commitment