Bireysel Başarı Güdüsü Organizasyonel Bağlılığı Nasıl Etkiler? = How Does the Motive of Individual Achievement Affect Organizational Commitment?

• Main Authors: Seçil SELÇUK, Nihat KAYA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dogus University 2007-06-01
• Series: Doğuş Üniversitesi Dergisi
• Subjects: Başarı güdüsü; Organizasyonel bağlılık; Achievement motive; Organizational commitment
• Online Access: http://journal.dogus.edu.tr/index.php/duj/article/view/89
• ISSN: 1302-6739; 1308-6979

The purpose of the research is to determine the relationship between individual achievement motive and organizational commitment of employees. With this purpose, to be able to test the relationships between the factors data collected from 412 employees (technical / management staff) working in different public organizations. The factors which have been studied in the research are; about achievement motive (confidence in success, competitiveness - status orientation, focus on work, in charge of individual task) and organizational commitment (affective commitment, continuance or calculative commitment and normative commitment). According to the analysis results; the factors which affect positively to personnel’s perception of affective commitment are; confidence in success and being different. The factor which affects negatively to personnel’s perception of affective commitment is in charge of individual task. The factor which affect positively to personnel’s perception of continuance commitment and normative commitment is in charge of individual task. The results of this research show that there isn’t any relationship between factor of focus on work and all organizational commitment factors.