Comparative Analysis of Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment Level of Team Sports Coaches and Seafarers

Abstract

The manager in a company should manage the manpower in a line of targets and in a coordinated way. Employees evaluate the levels job satisfaction (JS) and organizational commitment (OC). JS and OC are frequently studied in research area of social science. In the literature, JS is named as an attitude of employees to the work and work environment. OC is defined as a behavior that provides taking a decision of being a permanent member of organization and that is shaped by a relationship between employees and organization; so it is seem that there was a meaningful relationship between JS and OC. While officer?s levels of JS and OC (life and property loss etc. causes) is supposed to be high, being low of this levels is vital for coaches. It is aimed two compare these two profession keeping team management, communication skill, leadership etc. and may after common properties within and also to show how much the differences in addition to similarities affects the JS and OC. In our research, it is made a comparison between team sports coaches (football, basketball, volleyball) and officer seafarers by defining the relationship between the levels of JS and OC. While Minnesota?s Job Satisfaction Scale?s short form with 20 questions is used for JS levels, Meyer?s and Allen?s Organizational Commitment Survey with 18 questions is used for the level of OC. According to variables, the relationship between the levels of JS and OC is evaluated with SPSS 22.0 program by making inference of frequency analyze of questions in surveys. In research results, it is seem that according to seafarers JS and OC levels of team sports coaches, and also internal satisfaction, emotional and normative commitment levels of team sports coaches are higher. However external satisfaction and continuity commitment levels of seafarers are higher according to team sports coaches.