Research On Organizational Commitment And The Relationship Between Organizational Commitment And Turnover Intention Of P.E Teachers In General Universities And Colleges

This paper Investigated 280 P.E teachers in some universities from the provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, the purpose is to explore the organizational commitment, turnover intention and developmental phase of teachers' teaching career. Organizational commitment is measured by Organizational commitment questionnaire which was developed by Meyer & Allen(1993) and revised by Weipeng Hu, the questionnaire includes three dimensions: affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment. Turnover intention questionnaire is developed by Laiyi Cui (2000) . List of developmental phase of teachers' teaching career is anchored by the author.Confirmatory factor analyses and reliability analyses on 247 recalled valid questionnaire indicate that the questionnaire has desirable reliability and validity, and the organizational commitment of P.E teachers in Chinese general universities and colleges is accorded with Meyer & Allen's 3-Compenent Organizational Commitment Model: affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment. Descriptive statistics and stepwise regression analyses indicate that the scales of P.E teachers' organizational commitment and its dimensions are higher than the mean, and the scales is middling-ascending, especially the scales of normative commitment; that the organizational commitment and its' dimensions of lecturer is lower than assistant and adjunct professor( upwards ) . Correlation analyses and regression analyses indicate that organizational commitment and its' dimensions have negative correlation with turnover intention; that organizational commitment can forecast efficiently turnover intention; that affective commitment and normative commitment can forecast efficiently turnover intention; that the normative commitment can forecast efficiently turnover intention in the 2nd phase of teachers' teaching career (the phase of adaptive development) ; that the affective commitment can forecast efficiently turnover intention in the 3rd phase of teachers' teaching career (the phase of fast development) .