Abstract:

This paper deals with the levels of organizational commitment for general secretaries, sport expertsand civil servants working in sport federations. 183 persons are included in the research. Data forthe research have been collected through “Three Dimensional Organizational Commitment Scale”developed by Meyer, Allen and Smith 1993 . In this paper, organizational commitment isexamined in three different dimensions as emotional commitment, continuance commitment andnormative commitment, and also the levels of commitment for federation employees to theirorganizations are determined. Moreoever, this paper analyzes whether organizational commitmentdiffers by federation employees’ genders, duties, ages, educational background and working yearsin organization. In consequence of statistical analysis, federation employees have more emotionalcommitment at most. As some differences are found in gender, educational background variablesand organizational commitment levels, no significant difference is found in variables of duty, ageand working periods in organization

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