Organizational commitment and its relationship to job performance for primary school principals

Abstract

The current research aimed to identify (organizational commitment and its relationship to the job performance of primary school principals from the point of view of their teachers). The current research identified primary school principals in the Third Rusafa Directorate of Education in Baghdad Governorate for the academic year (2020-2021), and the research sample consisted of (300) teachers. With (100) males and (150) females, they were chosen from the original community of primary school teachers in the Third Rusafa Directorate of Education in Baghdad Governorate, which numbered (6558) teachers in a stratified random manner. To measure organizational commitment, consisting of 15 paragraphs, and the second to measure job performance, consisting of 21 paragraphs, and five alternatives for correction (always, often, sometimes, rarely, never) were developed for it The weights for correction reached (5-4-3-2-1), and the researcher extracted the indicators of validity and reliability of the scale. The researcher used a set of statistical methods, including (one-sample t-test, two independent samples t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and Cronbach's alpha equation). The Statistical Package for Humanities and Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to reach the required results in the research procedures, the most important of which are the following:-      

1.Primary school principals have an organizational commitment in their behavior from the point of view of their teachers.

2.Primary school principals perform at a good level from the point of view of their teachers.

3.There is a moderate direct correlation between organizational commitment and job performance for school principals

The most important recommendations and suggestions that the researcher reached are:

1.Enhancing the organizational commitment of managers by providing them with material and moral incentives, because of the positive effects of organizational commitment on the individual and the institution

2.Develop policies and take educational decisions that will provide the regulatory legislation, which enables managers to perform work in a space of freedom, and increases their independence in administrative work