Organizational Commitment and Academic Performance (Case study: students at secondary schools for girls)

Educational system is the most effectual point to progress and develop for people of society, and schools need insurable teachers as an operational patterns to make reality for each of these progress. Meanwhile their performance and those factors effecting for those performance are very important for educational systems. Purpose of this research is commonly examining the organizational commitment for teachers against performance of students in governmental secondary school for girls. The operational presented research is being descriptive by the way that has been written. The statistical population of this study is 195 persons from teachers of secondary school for area 6 in Tehran that 125 persons has been accidently selected as samples. Research has been done by organizational commitment standard questionnaire of Allen & Meyer and questionnaire for demographical and examination the averages of mark of students. This research has been done to examine performance of students. All gathered data have been talked and analyzed by Pearson correlation co-efficiency, Test Hypothesis, non-parametric Spearman correlation Analysis of multiple regression (Stepwise Regression). Results have been shown significant and positive relation between organizational commitment, normative commitment, emotion commitment and educational performance for students, but there is no significant relation between continuously commitment and educational performance for students. Also there is significant and negative relation between general commitment and educational degree for teachers, but there is no significant relation between their age and work experiences. According to the study, results could be improved by all types of organizational commitment that increase educational performance in the educational field (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd.