The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among the job satisfaction, physical work environments, and the organizational commitment of kindergarten teachers. The survey was given to 231 subjects sampled from private kindergartens in S...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among the job satisfaction, physical work environments, and the organizational commitment of kindergarten teachers. The survey was given to 231 subjects sampled from private kindergartens in Seoul. The instruments used for the survey were: MMSQ for teachers` job satisfaction, OCQ for the organizational commitment and ECWES for the physical work environments. The data was analyzed with LISREL. It was found that: 1) the following variables, listed in order of degree, have the most significant total effects on the teachers` organizational commitment: satisfaction with the director, satisfaction with wage and the physical convenience of teaching activities, satisfaction with the job itself, teachers` privacy and the cleanliness of the work place; 2) the independent variables such as job satisfaction and physical work environments have indirect and direct effects on the dependent variables such as teachers` organizational commitment. Especially, satisfaction with director valuable was the strongest influence on the teachers` organizational commitment.