A study of Organizational Commitment of Volunteers and Employees in Physical Education Administrations of Iran Universities

The purpose of this study was to investigate the organizational commitment among volunteers and employees in physical education administrations of Iran Universities to compare sub-factors of organizational commitment among them. The statistical populations consist of volunteers in sport associations and employees in physical education administrations of Iran Universities. One hundred and forty-one volunteers and eighty-one employees from 20 universities were selected as subject were by using random clustered sampling method. Organizational commitment was measured by standard questionnaire (OCQ) of Allen and Meyer (1991).The questionnaire consists of 18 questions and 3 sub-factors (affective commitment, normative commitment and continuance commitment). A panel of experts was asked to thoroughly examine the questionnaires for content and face validity. A panel of experts included sport management assistant professors (n=3), current volunteer coordinators in sport associations of Iran Universities (n=2), and individuals who had conducted research on sport volunteerism (n=2).The respondents were asked to indicate their level of agreement on a Likert scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient was used to test the reliability of the questionnaire (α=0.86, for organizational commitment questionnaire of volunteers & α=0.89, for organizational commitment questionnaire of employees). The data were analyzed by Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Friedman and independent t tests with P