THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIORS AND THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMITMENTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

Abstract

Organizational Citizenship Behavior means that an employee works more than his/her responsibilities determined by the organization and makes extra effort in this regard. The concept of organizational commitment includes the confidence in and acceptance of the aim, objective and values of the organization, the will to make more effort than required for the organization and to remain as a member of that organization, the identification with the objectives of the stakeholders of the organization, and the internalization of its values. One's attitutes towards his/her profession may affect his/her attitudes towards the organization. Therefore, the concept of professional commitment is so important as the concept of organizational commitment. Professional commitment is related to featuring the professional identity, making effort for the profession, and to being committed to professional objectives, values, norms and ethical principles. The purpose of the present research is to determine the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior, organizational and professional commitment depending on the opinions of teachers working at different secondary schools. Data was collected from 832 teachers: 130 teachers from general high schools, 272 teachers from Anatolian high schools and 430 teachers from vocational high schools. An organizational citizenship behavior scale (OCBS) and an organizational and professional commitments scale were applied to the teachers. The scale of Podsakoff et al. (1990) was used as the organizational citizenship behavior scale, and the scales developed by As a result of the research, a significant difference was determined between the organizational commitment perceptions of the teachers, the "affective commitment" and "normative commitment" sub-dimensions of the organizational commitment scale, and the "sportsmanship" sub-dimension of the OCBS according to the school type variable. This difference was found to be positive for the teachers working at the Anatolian High Schools. A positive and significant relationship was observed between organizational and professional commitments and organizational citizenship behavior. However, the results indicated that professional commitment is more related to the organizational citizenship behavior than organizational commitment. According to the results, professional and organizational commitments together were determined to explain approximately 26% of the total variance of the organizational citizenship behavior perceptions of the teachers. Professional and organizational commitments alone were determined to explain the organizational citizenship behavior perceptions of the teachers at the rate of 33% and 9%, respectively. As a result, professional commitments of the teachers were found to be higher than their organizational commitments.