THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMPLOYEES' EDUCATION LEVEL AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Acknowledging the complexity and the multifaceted nature of antecedents involved in organizational commitment, it is still necessary to understand the dynamics of relationships between employees' demographic characteristics and their organizational commitment. Therefore, in this study the relationship between employees' education level and their organizational commitment was investigated by conducting an empirical study. Regarding organizational commitment, Meyer and Allen's (1991) a three-component model of commitment was used. The three components are affective, continuance, and normative commitment. The data was gathered by using the questionnaire method of data collection. The analysis of the data showed that there are statistically significant relationship between education level and organizational commitment. Regarding education levels, the three employee groups (namely, graduated from university, vocational school and secondary school) reported higher levels of organizational commitment than the remaining two groups (namely, graduated from high school and primary school) did.