Differences between Generation X and Y in Accordance with Organisational Commitment

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The purpose of this paper is to show the different levels of organizational commitment of academics who work in a department of a vocational school in different generational groups (X and Y). The aim is to see whether there is a significant difference between the generatins (X and Y) considering the organisational commitment. The commitment types that paper has been dwelled on are affective, continuance, and normative commitment. Participants have consisted of purposive sample of academics in a vocational school of a foundation university in Istanbul, Turkey. Data has been collected from all of the members of the vocational school through survey using the revised Meyer and Allen Organisational Commitment Scale (Meyer and Allen, 1993). The results have revealed that there is no significance difference between the members of Generation X and Generation Y regarding organisational commitment.