Designing strategy for improving teacher’s organizational commitment in the remote elementary schools of Merauke district, Papua, Indonesia

Teacher's organizational commitment is one of the basic concepts unfolding the relationship between an employee and an organization. As the success of an organization may depend on how its employees get committed to, this present study was aimed at designing strategic policies to boost teacher's organizational commitment in the remote elementary schools of Merauke district, Papua, Indonesia. This present study employed a qualitative research approach using a case study research design due to that: (a) our personal competence of securing the informants' real name and office that may cause any harm to their carrier and personality, (b) our focus is on the effort of creating strategic policies to address teacher's organizational commitment in the remote elementary schools of Merauke district, Papua, and (c) we can utilize data of teacher's organizational commitment from the vary of data resources, namely: local community members, educational practitioners (teachers, lecturers, school principals, school supervisors), and local government. A purposive sampling technique was used to obtain 72 informants drawn from amongst local community members, educational practitioners (teachers, lecturers, school principals, and school supervisors), and local government.