This study was carried out to examine the effect of job stress on the organizational commitment within commercial sports facilites and to recognize their importance. The subjects of study were 182 staff members all of whom worked at commercial sports ...
This study was carried out to examine the effect of job stress on the organizational commitment within commercial sports facilites and to recognize their importance. The subjects of study were 182 staff members all of whom worked at commercial sports facilites located in Taegu city as of May, 1999, and who were selected through a cluster sampling method. The measuring tools used were questionnaires for job stress and organizational commitment. The factorial analysis and the reliability test showed a similarity to the preceding study and as a result, the questionnaires proved relatively reliable. Each questionnaire consisted of Likert's 5 step scale. The subjects were told to fill in the questionnaires using a self-administration method. The data that proved to be analyzable were computerized using SPSS WIN/PC + V8.0 in accordance with the study plan. Desciptive-statistical analysis, t-Test, ANOVA and multiple regression analysis were performed for data analysis.
The following are the conclusions of the data analysis in accordance with the study plan ;
1. The level of job stress through supervisor and task characteristic factors is high. Personnel have a high level of a sense of mission and responsibility and an average level of a sense of pride.
2. The order the personnel are, the higher the level of job stress through role conflict factors are. Married people have a high level of job stress through supervisor factors. Personnel who are at a high position and receive high salary have a high level of job stress through supervisor factors. Especially, when the career is good, the level of job stress caused by task characteristic factors is also high.
3. Men have higher levels of a sense of mission than women. The higher or longer the age, position and career get, the higher the sense of mission and responsibility are. And staff members who receive a high monthly income have high levels of a sense of responsibility.
4. Among subcategories of job stress, supervisor factors have a positive effect on the sense of mission and responsibility, but role conflict factors have a negative effect on the sense of mission, pride and responsibility. Task characteristic factors have a positive effect on the sense of pride. Social support factors, however, have no effect on organizational commitment.