Abstract:

The aim of this research is to examine the effect of organizational commitment of the personnel of the Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports on job satisfaction. The working group consists of a total of 227 people, 118 men and 109 women, who participated voluntarily among the personnel working in the Gümüşhane Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports. The collection of data in the research was done through the scale as a descriptive survey model. Personal information form for the demographic variables of the personnel of the provincial directorate of youth and sports, and the "Organizational Commitment Scale" (OSS) developed by Allen and Meyer (1990) to determine their organizational commitment and adapted to Turkish by Baysal and Paksoy (1999) were used to determine job satisfaction by Bayfield and Rothe ( 1951), updated by Yoon and Thye (2002) and shortened as 5 items, and adapted into Turkish by Kuşluvan (2005) were used. In the analysis of the data, Independent Sample T test, One Way ANOVA test, Pearson Correlation analysis, Multiple Linear Regression analysis were used. As a result of the findings, it is seen that there is a significant positive relationship above the medium level between emotional commitment and job satisfaction levels. It is seen that there is a moderately significant positive correlation between normative commitment and job satisfaction levels (r=.497; p<0.05). It is seen that there is a positive and low-level significant relationship between continuance commitment and job satisfaction levels. In addition, it is seen that organizational commitment has a significant effect of 39.5% on job satisfaction. When examined on the basis of sub-dimensions, it is seen that the biggest effect is in the form of affective commitment, normative commitment and continuance commitment, respectively.

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