Abstract:

The aim of this study is to identify the relationship level between performance management applications at primary schools and the organizational commitment levels of teachers. With this purpose, in this study, firstly, if the teachers’ opinions about the performance management applications at their schools and their organizational commitment levels are differed or not according to their length of service, educational status, the number of teachers at the school they work and their branches was identified. Later, it was tried to identified the level of relationship between the teachers’ organizational commitment and the performance management applications at school. The sample of the study consists of 383 teachers working in Kocaeli City. The data for the study was collected by the teacher performance management scale and organizational commitment scale. For the analysis of the teachers’ opinions for their organizational commitment levels and the performance management applications; ANOVA, t-test and Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient were used. The results of the study can be stated like that. Opinions of teachers about performance management applications differ according to their length of service on the dimension of identifying the performance aims and criteria, while their educational status differ on the performance development and evaluation dimensions. Moreover, while opinions of teachers about performance management applications differ according to the number of teachers at the school they work, they do not differ according to their branches. Furthermore, according to the results of this study, the level of organizational commitment of teachers differ according to their length of service and the number of teachers at the school they work on the dimensions of identification and internalization, while it does not differ on the dimension of adaptation. In addition, organizational commitment levels of teachers do not differ according to their educational status, they differ according to their branches. Finally in this study, significant difference between the opinions of teachers about the performance management applications at school and their levels of organizational commitment was found.

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