A Study on Demographic Characteristics, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment of Opticians

Abstract

The concepts of organizational commitment and job satisfaction have been previously studied in different sectors for quite a long time. However, limited to our literatüre search, there is no other research on this subject in the optical sector. For this purpose, the demographic characteristics of optical sector employees, their relationship to organizational commitment and job satisfaction were examined in this study. 320 people, consisting of opticians, responsible managers and other personnel working in opticians registered to the Turkish Opticians- Opticians Union, participated in the study as our study sample. A total of 52 questions were constructed in the questionnaire using "Demographic Characteristics", "Allen Meyer Organizational Commitment Scale" and "Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale" as data collection tools. Data is analyzed with SPSS v 23.0. Mann Whitney U test and the Kruskal Wallis H test were applied for the cmparisons of the study groups that did not comply with the normal distribution.
 As a result of the research, it was observed that the sum of organizational commitment, affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment were at average values. There is a statistically significant positive correlation between all values of organizational commitment and all values of job satisfaction. Average total job satisfaction score was moderate and internal satisfaction was found to be high in the averages of the sub-factors. A significant relationship was found between demographic factors such as gender, age, marital status, education, title, income levels, working time in the profession, and job satisfaction and organizational commitment.

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“…3389/fpsyg.2024.1322503 Frontiers in Psychology 03 frontiersin.org creates job satisfaction is grouped under two groups as factors related to the person and the job. While explaining the employee's personality, work experience, and social life as factors related to the person, The appearance and degree of difficulty of the job, the internal characteristics of the job, the salary, the opportunity for advancement, the reward, the human relations in the enterprise, the social appearance of the enterprise, the working conditions and job security are expressed as the factors related to the job (Demirbaş et al, 2022). In addition, individual factors affecting job satisfaction are listed as demographic characteristics, age, gender, education level, working time, and marital status (Günday et al, 2022).…”