درجة برامج التنمية المهنية في تدعيم الالتزام التنظيمي لدى معلمي الحلقة الثانية من التعليم الأساسي بمحافظة شمال الشرقية في سلطنة عمان

الملخص EN

The purpose of the current study is to recognize the role of professional development in enhancing organizational commitment among cycle two teachers in Basic Education in Sharqia North Governorate.

To carry out the study, the researcher followed the descriptive approach.

The data was collected using a questionnaire.

It was designed to identify teacher’s attitudes towards the professional development programs used for enhancing the organizational commitment.

It includes seven sections covering the organizational commitment indicators and its three dimensions: continuance, normative and Affective.

It also covers the role of the professional development regarding the three dimensions.

After evaluating the Questionnaire reliability, the researcher distributed randomly 193 Questionnaire on 193 targeted participants.

The analysis of the data gathered showed that the level of the organizational commitment regarding the three aspects was between very high and high level.

The normative aspect ranked the first with very high level.

The second aspect with high level was the continuance commitment.

Also, there were no significant differences in the three aspects of the organizational commitment except in the total amount which indicates that the organizational commitment was performed better by females rather than males.

Furthermore, the participants showed high degree of acceptance to the role of professional development programs for enhancing the organizational commitment.

Finally, we found there are no significant differences in all aspects of the role of professional development programs in enhancing the organizational commitment except the normative aspect which showed statistically differences in favour of females The female teacher believe that the professional development programs play a vital role in enhancing commitment and it is not concerned with major and work experience, in addition it the study indicates middle and low degree of participant’s agreement with the obstacles that interrupt the role of professional development programs in enhancing the organizational commitment.

Based on the study results, the researcher mentioned some practical suggestions and recommendations concerning the study aspects.