Abstract:

The purpose of the study is to determine whether the organizational commitment levels of research assistants differ in terms of their type of staff and demographic characteristics such as, age, gender, marital status, work experience and degree of postgraduate. Data were collected by questionnaire, prepared to measure the level of organizational commitment, is used from Allen and Meyer Three Dimensional Model of Organizational Commitment. The sample of the study is composed of 173 research assistants working at Black Sea Technical University. The collected data is analyzed by factor analysis, t-test and Anova Test. According to the findings, research assistants' normative commitment and continuation commitment differ in terms of their work experience. On the other hand, their affective, continuous and normative commitment levels are significantly different from each other according to the degree of postgraduate and type of staff (33a, 50d, OYP).

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