The purpose of this study is to analyze the influencing factors of teacher commitment by causal loop diagrams. For this purpose, a phenomenological approach was conducted on teachers and a causal loop diagrams was presented based on the data categorized through analysis.
The conclusion provides some research implications. First, the expertise recognition factor has a similar aspect to ‘goal retreat’ among archetypes, and as there is a causal relationship with inherent time delay, there is a possibility of a tendency toward ‘overaction’ [CLD-1]. Second, if the number of teachers is increased and field-tailored policies based on school autonomy are implemented, teachers’ perceptions of the work environment will change positively, and employment-oriented career vocational education has aspects similar to ‘the rich get richer and the poor get poorer’ archetype [CLD-2]. Third, by diversifying the cooperative resources of the community and school, policies must be implemented to break away from the mechanism of the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer [CLD-2], thereby changing the personal factor model [CLD-1] to increase awareness of the work environment. Lastly, the causal loop diagrams has the limitation of lacking explanatory power for the influence of causality. Therefore, a detailed analysis through computer simulations will have to be carried out as a follow-up study.