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European Journal of Education Studies ISSN: 2501 - 1111 ISSN-L: 2501 - 1111 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu Volume 3 │Issue 11 │2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1069116 INVESTIGATING THE WORKING LIFE QUALITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT BEHAVIORS OF ACADEMICIANS CARRYING ON DUTIES IN FACULTIES OF SPORTS SCIENCES Kürşat Yusuf Aytaçi Adiyaman University, School of Physical Education and Sport, Turkey Abstract: Within the scope of this research, the relationships between work life quality levels and organizational commitment of the academicians carrying on their duties in faculties of sports sciences was aimed to be investigated. In the research on relational screening model, Work Life Quality Scale developed by Sirgy et al. (2001) and adapted into Turkish by Afşar , and Organizational Commitment Scale developed by Meyer and Allen (1997) and adapted into Turkish by Varol (2010) were performed to 325 volunteer participants. In the research, descriptive statistics (number of persons, minimum, maximum, average, standard deviation) related to the work life quality and organizational commitments of the academicians were calculated. Multivariate variance analysis (MANOVA) was calculated for determining whether work life quality of the participants differed significantly according to their demographical properties. Pearson correlation coefficient was also calculated for determining the relationship level between work life quality levels and organizational commitments of the participants. In tests of difference, p level of significance was accepted to be 0.05. At the end of the research, it was determined that work life quality of academicians was slightly over medium level, and their organizational commitment was at a medium level. When analyzed in terms of the demographical variables, as the level of age and period for working in the institution increased, work life quality was noticed to increase, as well. Furthermore, as the work life quality of the participants increased, their organizational commitment was specified to increase positively. Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 603 K(rşat Yusuf Aytaç INVESTIGATING THE WORKING LIFE QUALITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT BEHAVIORS OF ACADEMICIANS CARRYING ON DUTIES IN FACULTIES OF SPORTS SCIENCES Keywords: quality of work life, organizational commitment, sport 1. Introduction In competition environment of our age, success of organizations varies according to attitudes, behaviors and conditions of the staff that carry on duties within their own bodies. These attitudes and behaviors of the staff working in both public and private institutions and organizations are considered as an important factor for organizations’ fulfilling their duties, powers and responsibilities. Managers’ knowing the attitudes of employees is remarkable in terms of understanding the attitudes towards organization and predicting positive or negative factors that are possible to appear Özkalp and Kırel, 999: 6 -62). Because the factors such as employees’ being happy in their job, quality of the task they carry on, their commitment with the organization, and appropriateness of the working environment affect productivity of the organization and employees. Like all other organizations, educational organizations are under the effect of these developments and changes in human factor in terms of their performances. Several models have been offered and implemented for development of the educational organizations. These model changes in education have failed because these have not been supported with the development of human factor Bursalıoğlu, 99 : . For that reason, the relationship between organizational commitment levels and work life quality of the academicians carrying on duties in Faculties of Sports Sciences or Vocational Schools of Physical Education and Sports, and some demographical variables related to these were investigated in this research. For viewing / downloading the full article, please access the following link: https://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1240 European Journal of Education Studies - Volume 3 │ Issue 11│ 2017 604