The Interrelationships Between the Job Attitudes: A Meta-analysis in the Education Industry

Abstract

The main aim of this meta-analysis was to survey the interrelationships between job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover intention in the education industry. 2,630 studies are screened, and three data sets are formed by using the chosen 47 studies including 30,550 subjects. Meta-analysis technique is used to find the direction of the surveyed relationships, and the effect size of the aforementioned relationships are computed. The strongest effect size is between job satisfaction and organizational commitment and it is positive (r=.597). According to the results, occupation and region are moderator variables for the relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention, occupation is the moderator variable for the relationship between the organizational commitment and turnover intention, lastly, the region is the moderator variable for the relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction.

Keywords

• Turnover intention
• job satisfaction
• organizational commitment
• meta-analysis

İş Tutumları Arasındaki İlişkiler: Eğitim Sektöründe Bir Meta-analiz Çalışması

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın temel amacı, eğitim endüstrisinde iş tatmini, örgütsel bağlılık ve işten ayrılma niyeti arasındaki karşılıklı ilişkiler, bu ilişkilerin araştırldığı çalışmalarıdan elde edilen sonuçlara dayalı olarak meta-analiz yöntemiyle analiz etmektir. İş tatmini, örgütsel bağlılık ve işten ayrılma niyeti arasındaki ilişkiyi çalışan 2.630 çalışma taranmış ve 30.550 denek olmak üzere seçilen 47 çalışma kullanılarak üç veri seti oluşturulmuştur. Araştırılan ilişkilerin yönünü bulmak için meta-analiz tekniği kullanılmıştır ve söz konusu ilişkilerin etki büyüklükleri hesaplanmıştır. En güçlü etki büyüklüğü iş tatmini ile örgütsel bağlılık arasındadır ve pozitiftir (r=.597). Elde edilen sonuçlara göre, iş tatmini ile işten ayrılma niyeti arasındaki ilişkide meslek ve bölge moderatör değişken olarak anlamlı bulunmuştur, örgütsel bağlılık ile işten ayrılma niyeti arasındaki ilişki için ise meslek çeşidi moderatör değişken olarak tespit edilmiş ve son olarak örgütsel bağlılık ile işten ayrılma niyeti arasındaki ilişki için ise bölge, moderatör değişken olarak tespit edilmiştir.

Keywords

• İşten ayrılma niyeti
• iş tatmini
• örgütsel bağlılık
• meta-analiz

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