Title - “Teacher’s organizational commitment at secondary level

of private school teacher in Jhapa”

Module Code & Module Title

MN6P00 & Management Investigation and Dissertation
Assessment Weightage & Type
20% individual Coursework

Year and Semester

2020-2021Autumn

Name- sohan uprety

London met Id – 18029601
College ID- NP01BA4A180054

Assignment Due Date: 03/01/2021

Assignment Submission Date:03/01/2021
Word Count (Where Required):2100
Table of Contents
Abstract.......................................................................................................................................................3
Introduction:................................................................................................................................................4
Background:............................................................................................................................................4
Research objective:..................................................................................................................................4
Research question....................................................................................................................................4
Statement of problem:.............................................................................................................................5
Purpose of the study:...............................................................................................................................5
Literature review.........................................................................................................................................5
Conceptual framework:...............................................................................................................................7
Hypothesis testing:..................................................................................................................................7
Methodology of the study............................................................................................................................8
Research approach:..................................................................................................................................8
Sample size:.............................................................................................................................................8
Sampling procedure:................................................................................................................................8
Data collection procedure:.......................................................................................................................8
Reliability and validity:...........................................................................................................................8
Pilot study:..................................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion and recommendation:..............................................................................................................10
Timeline and Budget.................................................................................................................................11
Work schedule – Gantt chart.................................................................................................................11
References.................................................................................................................................................12
Teacher’s organizational commitment at
secondary level of private school in Jhapa
district:

Abstract

An attempt was made to measure the level of organizational commitment of private school teachers who
teaches in secondary level. The study was conducted in Jhapa district. The data were collected from 16
private schools and simple random sampling technique were used to collect the data. Questionnaire were
developed on google forms based on three components i.e. affective commitment, normative
commitment, continuance commitment to measure the level of organizational commitment. The findings
of the study were older and senior teachers speaking more on continuance commitment in comparison of
affective commitment and normative commitment whereas younger teachers have found balanced on
affective and normative commitment. The findings revealed that there is no significant difference
regarding age, marital status, gender etc.
 Introduction:

Teachers are the most crucial manpower of the country who can educate the youth of the society.
Teachers are the pivots to impart knowledge to them. Organizational commitment refers to the members
of organization make promises to their organizations. Initially, organizational commitment was proposed
by American sociologists Becker to reflect psychological bonding between employees and organizations.
Organizational commitment has come to the researcher’s attention because it can forecast employee’s
behavior.

Background:

The aim of this research study is to identify the commitment of private school teacher’s in Jhapa district.
Teacher is the one of the most influential profession in the society. Teachers are the central elements in
educational system having various important responsibilities The research showed that organizational
commitment of private school teacher’s in Jhapa. Education plays a significant role in the progress of
human race. Educated peoples are the responsible for the better future of country. Overall performance of
school depends upon their teacher and ultimately their level of commitment. The objective of private
schools is achievable with the effort and involvement from teachers. Effective teachers are always
planning their activities in the school. Commitment of teachers is most important factor for the success of
education in private schools.

Research objective:

 To identify the level of commitment of private school teachers in Jhapa district.

 To find out teachers commitment according to demographical variables such as gender, age and
marital status.

Research question
 What is the level of commitment of secondary level teachers in private school of Jhapa district?
 Does demographical variable such as gender, age and marital status has impact on level of
commitment on private school teachers?
 Statement of problem:

The study has taken survey of secondary level schools teacher the results indicated that most of the
younger teachers are not that much interested to continue their job in private schools this may be due to
they are not totally satisfied with their teaching profession though they have try to give their best to the
organization.

Purpose of the study:

The main purpose of the study is to investigate the level of commitment of private school teacher’s in
Jhapa according to demographical variables such as gender, marital status, age etc.

Literature review

organization commitment is the psychological attachment of employee towards organization and desire to
remain in the same organization for the longer period.[ CITATION kar14 \l 1033 ]. To understand the
behavior of employee’s organization commitment is useful and according to Meyer and Allen (1991).
Mowday, Steers and Porter (1979) defined commitment as the relative strength of an individual’s
identification with involvement in a particular organization.[ CITATION RbB14 \l 1033 ]. According to
Meyer and Allen there are three types of organizational commitment i.e. affective commitment,
continuance commitment and normative commitment.
Affective commitment refers strong emotional attachment of employee to the value, objectives and goals
of the organization. Employee having affective commitment will incorporate the goals where they work
and wants to remain in the organizations.[ CITATION Ste07 \l 1033 ]. Affective commitment is based on
desire. It shows the strong relationship with the positive work behavior.
On the other hands employee who have continuance commitment feelings towards organization wants to
remains in the same organization for longer period though they have worked so hard and feel attached to
the organization and they would think that leaving the organization would be costly. An employee
remains in the same organization till they needs. No better employment opportunity becomes the primary
antecedents of continuance commitment.[ CITATION Waq16 \l 1033 ].

In 1982, Weiner defined normative commitment as being a “generalized value of loyalty and duty.” And
in 1991, Meyer and Allen supported Bolon’s definition of normative commitment as being “a feelings of
obligation” to stay in the organization. It is suggested that past and current experience of an employee is
influenced by normative commitment. Normative commitment employee generally feel that they should
be stay in this organization. In 1993, Meyer, Allen and Smith identified that the three component of
commitment are a psychological statement that either characterizes the employee’s relationship with the
organization or has the implications to affect whether the employee will continue with the organization.
[ CITATION DrA12 \l 1033 ].

As per the survey taken from 33 secondary levels teacher in Jhapa district most of the responses form
teacher are positive towards the organization and the teachers who are not committed towards
organization are likely to put less effort in the teaching in comparison of those teachers with level of
committed which directly affects the student learning. The study found that student performance is
influenced with many factors like; relationship between teacher and students, environment, teacher
discipline etc. the study indicates that the level of commitment of teachers in secondary school is higher
which shows the higher performance of qualified teachers. The study indicated that this performance in
private schools is a result of effective management and utilization of teachers. When teachers are regular
in school, classes are well organized and evaluated which justifies the higher level discipline of teachers.
The purpose of study was to compare teacher competence and performance. As the research questionnaire
and few interview, the findings revealed that teachers in Jhapa districts are performing well and giving
their best to teaching profession. As per the teachers, they indicated that teaching alone is not enough, it
needs the complementarily of learning environment and motivations factors which would lead teacher
commitment and high performance. Study on level of commitment of private school teachers in Jhapa it
revealed high level of teacher’s commitment. According to Allen and Meyer (1993), it is believed that
those employees grow older in term of their age and longer service year have higher level of commitment
than younger or newer employee.[ CITATION MUh19 \l 1033 ]. Similarly, with the findings it is found that
older teachers are continuance committed in the same school.
 Conceptual framework:

Conceptual framework is a tool that provide what you expect to find through your research and it define
the relevant variables for your study and find a way how they might relate each other. It can be designed
in different ways. Conceptual frame is developed based on a literature review of existing studies.
[ CITATION Bas20 \l 1033 ]. Meyer and Allen develop a three multidimensional model of commitment
namely affective commitment, normative commitment, and continuance commitment which are the major
scale to examine the level of teacher’s organizational commitment.

affective
commitment

contuance normative
commitment commitment

organizational
commitment

The above diagram shows the conceptual framework of teacher’s commitment. Meyer and Allen develop
these component to examine the level of commitment of employee with their organization. According to
them older teachers are more likely to remain in the same organization because they had invested a lot of
energy and spend a lot of time and have an emotional attachment towards organizations.

Hypothesis testing:
 To examine the relationship of affective commitment of private school teachers according to
gender, age and marital status.
 To examine the relationship of normative commitment of private school teachers according to
gender, age and marital status.
 To examine the relationship of continuance commitment of private school teachers according to
gender, age and marital status.
 Methodology of the study
Research approach:
The main aim of this study is to examine the level of commitment of secondary school teacher’s in Jhapa
district according to the demographical characteristics of teachers.

Sample size:
The study was conducted on teachers who teaches in private schools at secondary levels in Jhapa district.
The researchers have taken 16 private schools and among them 13 female teachers and 20 male teachers
has been participate in this study.

Sampling procedure:
The aim of the study is to identify the level of commitment of secondary school teachers. to examine the
commitment level questionnaire were developed based on three major components i.e. affective
commitment, normative commitment, and continuance commitment. to determine the sample size
researcher used simple random sampling technique. The data were collected form 16 private schools
located in Jhapa district in which total 33 number of teacher were respondent.

Data collection procedure:

The researchers have used measurement tool determine the level of commitment of teachers. the study
had that contain two part in which first part deals with demographical information on other hands second
part contains 13 question based on three components i.e. affective commitment, normative commitment
and continuance commitment which were made on google forms using multiple choice and Five point
Likert scale to engage the respondent’s response. The score is range from, (1) strongly disagree to (5)
strongly agree.

Reliability and validity:

To determine the reliability and validity simple random technique was used and five point Likert scale
was used to collect the data. Quantitative data has used for the accurate data collections. Descriptive
analysis and correlation has done to examine the average mean and to find out relationship between
demographical variables and teachers commitment. Research questionnaire were derived from different
journal and article and to different theories has taken as reference for the validity of the study.
Pilot study:

Descriptive Statistics
N Minimum Maximum Mean Std. Deviation
Affective commitment 33 2.50 5.00 3.9924 .58458
Normative commitment 31 2.25 5.00 3.8548 .62508
Continuous commitment 31 1.83 5.00 3.4247 .84748

Table: Descriptive analysis of teacher’s commitment

Overall level of commitment of private school teachers in Jhapa has shown in the above table. Here, we
can observe maximum teachers are in top level of commitment. As per the survey taken by researcher 33
respondent has average mean 3.9924 in affective commitment which indicates majority of teachers from
different age group feels a part of this organization and give their best to achieve the organizational goal.
Similarly, mean of normative commitment is 3.8548 which shows secondary level teachers feels that their
loyalty is necessary for the schools and have to fulfil their duty towards the organizations and mean of
continuance commitment which is 3.4247 that indicates maximum number teacher’s desire to stay in this
organization though they have invested a lot energy and time and has emotional attachment towards
organization. So from the data finding all three commitment has high level of mean which shows that
teachers of secondary level in Jhapa have positive commitment towards school.

correlation
Table: correlation of teacher’s organizational commitment

Gender Age Marital status

Affective commitment 0.092 .428* .364*

Normative 0.053 0.250 0.160

commitment
Continuance -0.100 .409* 0.197
commitment
**correlation is significant at the 0.01 level(2-tailed)
*correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)
Data of correlation is shown in above table. From here we evaluate the relationship between
organizational commitment and demographical variables. From the data finding age with relation to
affective commitment has higher value that is 0.428 which is near to 1 and that indicates age of teacher
has strongly positive relationship towards organizational commitment. similarly, gender has lowest value
in comparison to others that is –0.100 which indicates gender has no effects on continuance commitment
of teachers.
Conclusion and recommendation:

The study had concluded that level of commitment of married teachers is more than that of unmarried
teachers. Though unmarried and younger teachers not willing to continue their job in private school they
have feelings that they are a part of this organization and trying to give their best to achieve the
organizational goal. The study found that younger teachers are more focused on affective and normative
commitment whereas according to older teachers they have invested a lot of energy and spend a lot time
in same school so they desire to remain in this organization. The study revealed most of Secondary level
teachers in Jhapa have agreed that they are satisfied with their job in private school but younger teachers
have mentioned they will shift towards another job if they found better than school. In comparison of
gender, male and female teachers have not found much more difference in level of commitment. The
study had concluded that younger teacher has low continuance commitment and they said that they will
shift towards other workplace if they found better than schools so for the recommendation, to build the
feeling to stay longer in same organization, schools should motivate their teachers, should provide job
satisfactions, facilities and should provide opportunity to develop personality.
Timeline and Budget
Work schedule – Gantt chart

Topics November December January

Identify research area 13th

Formulate research questions 06

Formulate research strategy, research 11th

design and select methods

Write research proposal 17th

Negotiate access 19th

Literature review 21st

Data collection 21st

Data analysis 23rd

Write First draft 25th

Write second Draft 26th

Write Final Draft 3rd

Dissertation due 3rd

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