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Organizational commitment, has recently started to receive increased attention from scholars. Organizational commitment is considered to be an important concept with respect to ensuring the continuity of businesses and the motivation of employees. As such, evaluating the commitment of scholars to their universities is important from the standpoint of both these institutions and the scholars themselves. To this end, this study investigated the organizational commitment of scholars employed in a number of public universities, utilizing the scale described in the study of Meyer, Allen and Smith (1993). Within the scope of this study, the scale was applied to 278 individuals working in 42 public universities in Turkey. Kruskal Wallis test was employed to assess whether there was any statistically significant difference between the groups with respect to their affective, continuance and normative components of commitment, which together constitute organizational commitment. In addition, Mann Whitney U-test was employed to assess whether there was any statistically significant difference between female and male respondents with respect to affective, continuance and normative components of commitment. The results of the analysis revealed that a statistically significant difference was identified between the female and male groups with respect to continuance commitment. 1. INTRODUCTION The attitudes of employees towards their work is closely related to the level of their job satisfaction. If an employee is satisfied with the work he/she performs, it will be more likely for her/him to continue her/his career within her/his current organization. Thus, job satisfaction is an important aspect for organizations (Hodgetts, 1991)

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