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The following paper presents a research conducted within the context of analysis of feelings of employees, such as commitment and devotion towards the organization they're working at. The research was focused on the area of education and was applied on instructors working in Vocational Training Institutes (VTI) in the private sector. Its aim was to ascertain whether the number of teaching hours assigned to a certain instructor of a private VTI becomes decisive factor to affect the devotion and commitment this instructor shows towards the VTI he is working at or not. Given the fact that the instructor of a private VTI is paid by the teaching hour, the amount of his salary depends on the number of teaching hours he has fulfilled. Furthermore instructors with more teaching hours tend to forge stronger bonds and relationships of cooperation with their chiefs of staff, colleagues and students as well. It was therefore expected that the research would conclude that instructors with more teaching hours assigned, would show higher levels of devotion towards the organisation they're working for. For the objectives of our research suitable questionnaires were created and distributed to 213 instructors of both genders, different age groups and educational backgrounds, working exclusively in private VTIs. A statistical analysis of the results followed, which showed that our primary allegation (many teaching hours lead to bigger devotion and commitment against the VTI) is not a valid statement. According to our research, instructors with a plethora of teaching hours, though they are interested in finishing their career in the organisation they're working at, and are not willing to give up on benefits they've obtained there by looking for a new working position, they show however no statistically important differentiation concerning the level of devotion towards their educational organisation in comparison to their colleagues with fewer teaching hours.