JOB SATISFACTION AS THE PREDICTOR OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AMONG TEACHER EDUCATORS

The purpose of this study was to determine how much job satisfaction predicted organizational commitment among the teacher educators of Murshidabad district. In this study, the researcher selected 150 teacher educators as the sample from among fifteen teacher training institutions using purposive sampling technique. Two hypotheses guided the study. Organizational Commitment Scale for the Teacher Educators developed by the researcher himself and Teacher’s Job Satisfaction Questionnaire developed by Nasrin and A. Annes (2014) were administered on 150 teacher educators using simple random sampling technique. P.C.C and S.M.R were the statistical techniques used by the investigator to analyse the data. The researcher found linear correlation between organizational commitment and job satisfaction (r =.202, p<.05) and it was also found that job satisfaction emerged as the most significant contributing variable in influencing the organizational commitment as its contribution is 4.1% of the variance (R² = .041, F = 6.321, p<0.05).