Paper Critique
The relationship between job satisfaction, occupational and organizational commitment of academics
Assoc. Professor
Job satisfaction is the state of contentment in both the mind and feelings of an individual regarding their current work (, 2006). Job satisfaction can have an impact on various factors such as the relationship of the employee to its colleagues and supervisor, the quality of the environment in which the employee in currently working, the level of fulfilment with the job, or even the relationship of the individual to its family members can influence the satisfaction in the workplace (, 2006). According to (2006), organizational commitment on the other hand, is the psychological attachment of an individual to the organisation wherein he or she works as a member or an affiliate. Moreover the organizational scientists and (1991) developed a three-component model of commitment which are the following:
Affective commitment: according to and , affective commitment is the strong emotional bond of an employee to the organization and because of the strong emotional commitment the employee strongly associates with the aims of the company.
Continuance Commitment: According to and , continuance commitment is the imperative of an individual particularly the employee, in the organization. An employee becomes committed to the organization because he or she sees a great loss if she is no longer affiliated with the organization, loss includes salary and benefits from the organization.
Normative Commitment: Normative commitment according to and is the commitment of an individual in the organisation because he or she feels a strong obligation towards his or her job.
In the sector of academics, the interest in research on job satisfaction has been done a number of times; however the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment has not been studied.
This paper examines the paper “The relationship between job satisfaction, occupational and organizational commitment of academics.” After examination of the paper, a critique will be given regarding the paper using The Critiquing Framework by and (1995).
Critique of the Article
Focus
The title of the paper is “The relationship between job satisfaction, occupational and organizational commitment of academics” by . The title itself of the research paper presents the overview of the entire study. The title of the paper compels the interest of the readers on the association and relation of job satisfaction in the organizational and occupational commitment particularly in the sector of academics.
Background
The study of (2006) has been created in order to determine if there is a considerable difference between the satisfaction in the job, occupational commitment and organizational commitment of academics, which is associated with the gender, marital status, age, experience, and title variance and identify if there is a relationship among job satisfaction, occupational commitment and organizational commitment. employed the following tests in this study, which are the t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson’s Moments Multiple Correlation. The results have shown that there is a positive relationship between the affective and normative commitments which is associated to occupational and organizational commitment.
Terms of Reference
The objectives of are to find out the job satisfaction in the sector of academics in terms of their occupational and organizational commitments and also to determine if there is a correlation between job satisfaction, occupational commitment and organizational commitment to the variables such as sex, marital status, age, experience and title in the job, moreover this paper is aimed to find out if there is an association among job satisfaction, occupational and organizational commitments.
Study Design
In the study conducted by , the researcher used the quantitative method in measuring the relationship among job satisfaction, organizational commitment and occupational commitment in academics, as well as the variables such as marital status, age, gender, experience in teaching and the title in the job.
Sample
The individuals that constitute the range of this study are the academics that are currently working in the Educational facilities of the state universities in Istanbul. The educational statistics of the academic year 2003-2004, that gathered have revealed that there were 478 lecturers in state universities in the whole of Istanbul that is working in the 4 educational facilities. A random sampling was conducted in order to choose the 132 academicians to form the sample group, which is 51.5% that participated are women, 48.5% were men, 59.8% married, 40.2% were single. And according to the ages of the sample 44.7% were between the ages of 20-30, 38.6% were between the ages of 31-40 and 16.7% were over the age of 41. Among the participants 6.1% were professors, 6.8% were associate professors, 23.5% were assistant professors and 63.3=6% were teaching assistant. And regarding the length of their teaching experience, 47.7% of the participants had 1-5 years of teaching experience, 12.1% had 6-10 years, 22% had 11-15 years and 9.1% had 16-20 years and also 9.1% had 21 years or more experience in the teaching profession.
The employment of the author of the method of random sampling in order to obtain the sample is the right choice because it reduced or even eliminated the bias in the study because all of the samples have equal chances of getting picked or chosen by the author.
Data Instrument
In this study the researcher used three scales. The scales are for job satisfaction, occupational commitment and the organizational commitment. The following scales were used in the study of : The personal information data form, job satisfaction questionnaire, the occupational commitment and the organisational commitment scale.
For the data analysis employed the T-test to test if there is a significant difference between job satisfaction, occupational and organizational commitment related to the variables of gender and marital status. One-way ANOVA was used to test the significant difference between job satisfaction, occupational and organizational commitment which is associated to the variables of age, job teaching experience and job title. The Scheffe and LSD tests were used to find out the source of the difference and the Pearson Moment Correlation were used to determine the relationship between job satisfaction, occupational commitment and organizational commitment.
Data Presentations
has used tables to present the statistical data of the research. Tables for the result of the factor analysis on the organizational and occupational commitment were presented, as well as the independent t-tests for the relationship between job satisfaction, occupational and organizational commitment and the variables. In addition the results for the ANOVA tests and Pearson Moment Correlation were also presented in the form of tables.
Main Findings
The study on the relationship between job satisfaction, organisational and occupational commitment has determined that there is no difference between the job satisfaction, organizational and occupational commitment levels according to the gender of the academicians. And just like gender there is also no difference between job satisfaction, organisational and occupational commitment and the marital status.
In addition, the age variable has also no significant difference in job satisfaction, continuance and normative commitment to the organisation, however, the study determined significant differences in the affective, continuance and normative commitment to the occupational levels.
Just like the age variable, the title also does not have a significant difference between job satisfaction, continuance and normative commitment to the organization, but there were significant differences in terms of continuance and normative commitment to the occupational levels. And in the experience in teaching, just like the variables of age and title, it also has shown no significant difference in continuance and normative commitment to the organization, but has shown difference in continuance and normative commitment to the occupational levels.
Conclusion and Recommendation
The study of has shown that there are correlations between marital status, age, experience, title of the academics and some of the levels of commitment on the organizational and occupational aspects. But, there is no relationship determined between job satisfaction and the variables. The correlation analysis has revealed that there is a strong relationship to the affective and normative commitment. Recommendation for further study regarding this topic is highly suggested by the authors.
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