tailieunhanh - Demographic factors affecting organizational commitment of lecturers

The results showed that there were low correlation between years of work and continuance commitment; between gender and affective commitment; between highest degree earned with normative commitment. There was a moderate correlation between position hold and affective commitment. There was a low negative correlation between age and normative commitment. The correlation between other demographic variables with OC was negligible. | VNU Journal of Science: Education Research, Vol. 31, No. 4 (2015) 16-25 Demographic Factors Affecting Organizational Commitment of Lecturers Võ Văn Việt* Faculty of Foreign Language and Education Studies, Nông Lâm University, Linh Trung Ward, Thủ Đức District, Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam Received 02 February 2015 Revised 26 October 2015; Accepted 22 December 2015 Abstract: Many studies have confirmed the organizational commitment is an important factor deciding the success or failure of the organization. However, how to commit employees with the organization is a challenge for many agencies and organizations. This study was conducted to determine the demographic factors that affect organizational commitment of university lecturers. The study was conducted at a university with a convenient sampling method so the results are not generalized to all university lecterers. The results showed that there were low correlation between years of work and continuance commitment; between gender and affective commitment; between highest degree earned with normative commitment. There was a moderate correlation between position hold and affective commitment. There was a low negative correlation between age and normative commitment. The correlation between other demographic variables with OC was negligible. Keywords: Organizational commitment, demographic factor, faculty member. 1. Introduction * important for an organization to study OC of employees. Since most of the works done dealing with organizational commitment provides an abundance of information regarding the area of business and industry but a very limited amount of information in the area of higher education. A growing need exists to understand the impact of organizational commitment upon higher education. Because educational institutions are different from commercial organizations, they have to develop a different management strategy. As stated by Wittenauer (1980) "With the ever increasing pressure on higher education