The Hierarchical Linear Relationship between Individual and Organizational Variables and Organizational Commitment of General Subject Teachers in Specialized Vocational High Schools

The purpose of this study was to investigate the organizational commitment and the hierarchical relationship between the individual and organizational variables of general subjects teachers in specialized vocational high schools. The subjects of this study were general subject teachers in specialized vocational high schools. The samples were randomly sampled from 465 teachers from 31 schools by stratification rate sampling according to school location. The research questionnaire consisted of measuring tools such as organizational commitment, job satisfaction, relationship oriented culture etc validity and reliability are verified, and also include survey items on gender, career experience etc. As for data analysis, HLM 6.0 for Windows program were used to conduct the hierarchical linear model(HLM). The main results of this study are as follows. Firstly, teachers' organizational commitment level was average moderate, and the rate of explaining the individual variables considered in the study was about four times higher than that explained by the organizational variables. Secondly, Among the organizational variables, the establishment type and the relationship oriented culture of the specialized vocational high school have a significant effect on the level of organizational commitment of the teacher and among the personal variables, teachers' vocational high school work experience, task importance and job satisfaction have significant effects on organizational commitment level. Thirdly, in the interaction of individual and organizational variables, it was found that the importance of task and principal's transformational leadership were effective and job satisfaction, type of school establishment and continuous learning opportunities were effective.