Abstract:

In this study, it is aimed to investigate whether there is a significant relationship between job security perception and organizational commitment of hotel staff. The population of the research is the employees of a five-star accommodation establishment operating in Bursa. In the research, questionnaire technique was used as data collection technique. The questionnaire form consisted of three parts, the first part was asked questions about the demographic characteristics and working time of the hotel employees, the second part was used to determine the organizational commitment of the employees in the five-point Likert type Allen and Meyer's three-dimensional Organizational Commitment Scale was used in the third part of the employees A five-point Likert-type scale was used to determine job security perceptions. In the three-dimensional Organizational Commitment Scale of Allen and Meyer, 1-6. Emotional commitment to expressions, 7-12. continued commitment to the statements 13-18. expressions are also intended to measure normative commitment. For the job security scale, the works of the Bakan and Büyükmeşe (2004) and Çıtır and Kavi (2010) were used. The statistical analysis of the questionnaire, which was answered by 202 hotel employees, was conducted with IBM SPSS 22 statistical package program. Frequency distribution, descriptive statistics and correlation analysis tests were used to analyze the data. There was a positive correlation between the employees' perception of job security and the emotional commitment dimension of the organizational commitment scale.

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