Professional Commitment and Internships in Information and Records Management Studies

Abstract

Professional commitment, which expresses the personal and psychological commitment of an employee to his profession, is also important for the field of Information and Records Management like all disciplines. Acquisition of professional commitment, that will enable information centers to work with the best performance, starts during university studies and internships. In this study, the professional commitment levels of Marmara University Information and Records Management Department students, has been examined according to various variables. In the study, the second factor of the Professional Commitment Scale which prepared by Rıdvan Keskin and M. Nur Pakdemirli, is used. The data were analyzed using the SPSS 22.0 program. Number, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and One-Way Anova Test were used to evaluate the data. After the Anova test, the Scheffe test was used as a complementary post-hoc analysis to determine the differences. At the end of the research, it was observed that the students’ level of professional commitment was high. However, it was found that there is an inverse proportion between the internship and professional commitment, among the research population.