Analysis Of The Relationship Between Academic Freedom And Organizational Loyalty

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze the relationship between academic freedom and organizational loyalty, as recognized by faculty members in the Faculty of Management and Economics, Al Qudsiyah University. And to test the significance of differences regarding the exercise of academic freedom by scientific title and gender. A questionnaire was designed for this purpose, which included two axes: academic freedom and organizational loyalty. It included (45) paragraphs to measure the exercise of academic freedom and the organizational loyalty of the college teachers and the relation between the two variables. The study found that there is a relationship between academic freedom and organizational loyalty in general. It also emerged that there is an acceptable level of academic freedom and good organizational loyalty to teaching the college, although there was no significant statistical relationship between some variables of academic freedom and organizational loyalty. Some proposals were presented, including the involvement of teachers in the selection of administrative leaders in the college, providing financial support for scientific research, participation in foreign scientific conferences and their participation in the decisions of appointing new teachers in the scientific department