Investigation the Perceptions of the Academicians in the Faculties of Sports Sciences on the Internationalization Policies of the University They Work in and Their Organizational Identification

Abstract

This study was carried out to determine the views of the academic staff working in the faculties of sports sciences on the internationalization policies of the university they work and the levels of organizational identification and to examine the relationship between them. Relational screening model was used in the research. While the population of the research consists of academic staff in sports sciences faculties, the sample group consists of a total of 363 academic staff, 263 men and 100 women. In the study, “Personal Information Form” created by the researcher to determine the demographic variables of the participants; “Academics’ Views of Universities on Internationalization Scale”, developed by Taşçı (2018) to determine the views of academicians on the internationalization policies of the universities they work for; In order to examine the organizational identification of the participants, the “Instructor Organizational Identification Scale", developed by Eker (2015) was used. Frequency analysis to determine the demographic variables of the participants, descriptive test to determine the mean scores of the scales and the sub-dimensions of the scales; t-test for independent variables in comparison of participants’ mean levels of scales according to gender, administrative position and research university status; one-way anova test in comparison of title, professional service time and institutional service time variables; and tukey test to determine from which groups the differences originate; Simple regression tests were applied to examine the effect of the participants’ perceptions of the internationalization of the universities they work for on organizational identification, and multiple linear regression tests were used to examine the effect of the perception sub-dimensions of the internationalization of universities on organizational identification. As a result of the comparison of the participants’ perceptions of the internationalization of universities and their organizational identification, according to the status of the university they work at is a research university, it was determined that there were significant differences between the groups. When the effect of the participants’ perceptions of the internationalization of the universities they work for on their organizational identification was examined, it was determined that there was a moderate positive relationship.According to the results of the research, it has been determined that the participants whose university is a research university have higher perceptions of the internationalization of the university they work and their organizational identification than those who do not have a research university. It has been determined that as the level of perception of the academic staff in the faculties of sports sciences regarding the internationalization policies of the university they work in increases, their organizational identification also increases.