A Research on Analysis of Factors Affecting the Organizational Commitment Levels and Participation of Members: A Case of Dairy Cooperatives In Izmir Province
Project no. 865 · Status: Kapanmış · 2016
Summary
Agricultural Development Cooperatives are versatile cooperatives and have important agricultural activities. For this reason, agricultural development cooperatives have a direct impact on farmers’ income. The role of cooperatives relations with members is very important for cooperatives’ success and performance. Therefore, organizational trust and commitment of the members are also very important. Cooperative management tries to achieve more effective and equitable systems of resource management. The effective management of cooperatives depends on the involvement of members in governance. Therefore, the active involvement of members in managing is very important for cooperatives success. The main purpose of this study to examine the cooperative commitment and trust level of the members in agricultural cooperatives and ito determine the level of members’ participation in cooperative management. The data were obtained by face-to-face interviews with the 142 cooperative members in İzmir province. Accordingly, results were summarized as tables and graphics. Participation of members in the cooperative management of the situation revealed non-parametric statistical methods and logistic regression analysis method were used. In the study, Organizational Commitment Scale developed by Allen and Meyer (1990;1993) and Organizational Trust Inventory (OTI) developed by Nyhan and Marlowe (1997) was used. The members were divided into 2 according to cooperative types. Differences between groups were examined by Mann Whitney U test. The correlations between sub-dimensions of organizational commitment scale and sub-dimensions of organizational trust scale were examined. And regression analysis was conducted with the aim of seeing the power of the relationship.