Relationship between Job Motivation, Job Involvement and Organizational Commitment of Teachers and Managers΄ Productivity in Education Administration of Zanjan
Subject Areas : Business ManagementGholamhosein Entesar foomani 1
1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran
Keywords: Productivity, Organizational Commitment, Job Involvement, Managers, job motivation,
Abstract :
A person who suffers from low job motivation usually goes to work with reluctance and delay, and he has no desire to perform well.The present study aims to determine the relationship between job motivation, job involvement, and organizational commitment of teachers with managers΄ productivity. The statistical population includes all the teachers working in zanjan Education Administration during the academic year 2007-2008, totalling 9257,and from among them a sample of 456 was selected through the use of cluster random sampling (with respect to areas:privileged,half –privileged , and underprivileged ;teaching level;educational degree;urban and rural; gender).For data collection ,Andrakas΄ test of teachers΄ job motivation (2004);Edwards and kylpatryks΄ test of job involvement (1984);Muday, Astyz,and Porters΄ test of organizational commitment (1982);and the researcher –devised questionnaire of managers΄ productivity were conducted .The data were analyzed by the statistical tests R,regression analysis ,T,and F,and the following results were obtained: There is a relationship between job motivation, job involvement,and organizational commitment with the productivity of education administration managers(P<0.001).Also,there is a positive relationship between teachers ΄job motivation and their job involvement and organizational Commitment(P<0.001). The researchers concluded that there is a positive relationship between the rate of teachers ΄job motivation, job involvement, and organizational commitment and managers΄ productivity.
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