The Impact of Job Satisfaction and Motivation on Teachers’ Commitment

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the three main variables: job satisfaction, motivation, and teachers’ commitment.  By using correlation research design the responses of 51(77%) teacher-educators who randomly selected from Jimma Teachers’ College were analyzed first through bivariate Pearson correlation. Further, standard multiple linear regressions were used to investigate the individual influence of job satisfaction facets (work, pay, promotion, supervision, coworker and job in general satisfaction) and dimensions of motivation (intrinsic and extrinsic motivation) on teachers’ commitment.   Results generally showed significant positive association between job satisfaction, motivation and teachers’ commitment (correlation coefficient R=.478 and P=0.002, at P<0.05). The strength of association which can be determined by coefficients of determination shows 23.7% variability among the variables. However, further analysis of the model using stepwise procedure found promotion and extrinsic motivation having statistically significant correlation with teachers’ commitment (ANOVA = 0.000, P< 0.05).  Implication of the finding has generally emphasized the need to focus on promotion and extrinsic motivators to enhance or improve teachers’ commitment.