Teachers Job Satisfaction

Journal of Strategic Human Resource Management, 2017

The main aim of this research paper is to summarize all the research work done by various researchers on the topic job satisfaction of teachers of higher educational institutions of India. In order to make this paper meaningful and helpful to other researchers the authors have left no stone unturned by reading and summarising articles from number of journals, thesis, literature reviews, and reviewed books available on the Internet. This article covers what all different factors were taken into consideration by different researchers to measure job satisfaction of faculty members, what statistics has been applied, how data are collected, and what the result of such research in higher education institutes is. From the review of literature it has been found out that job satisfaction is very critical aspect. Its level and factors affecting is different from person to person, place to place. So nothing can be standardised about it with full surety. It has also been found out that researchers have linked job satisfaction with job performance, job commitment, motivation, turnover, and much more. The paper tries to cover all studies based on job satisfaction of teachers of higher education in India. This paper is a contribution because nothing like this has been done before though there is research paper on foreign studies on job satisfaction of higher education teachers.

University, 2013

This paper seeks to measure the level of job satisfaction of university teachers in Maharashtra state. Cross-sectional research design is used in the present study. The researcher included 274 university teachers in the sample by using proportionate stratified random sampling technique. The data collected are analysed using appropriate statistical techniques such as Arithmetic Mean, Standard Deviation, T-Test and One Way ANOVA. The results of the study found that majority of the university teachers have moderate level of job satisfaction.

Job satisfaction plays an important role towards personal attitude and belief system. These two factors may ultimately cause an individual to strive hard or the opposite may happen, due to this he/she is forced to work below expectation. If one is not satisfied with his days' work so he is forced to lavishly spend his/her time while at days' work. As a consequence, if an individual is not satisfied with the assigned task, this will prop up to dissatisfaction towards other segment of their life. After due investigation it has been revealed that once a man is truly satisfied with his commitment, he is profited by a certain reward. In such a case new destiny is shaped. For this study was done with teachers of higher secondary Hindi and English medium schools and Teacher Job Satisfaction Questionnaire of Pramod Kumar, D.Phil. and D. N. Mutha, Ph.D. were given to randomly selected sample teachers as tool. Finding indicates that there are indications that teacher's level of job satisfaction has a positive relation with success in teaching. The satisfaction of teachers with teaching profession is significantly correlated with teaching success.

Job satisfaction is the result of various attitudes, which the employees hold towards their job, towards related factors and towards life in general. Also, the term job satisfaction describes how pleased an employee is with his/her position of employment. There are a variety of factors that could influence an employee's level of job satisfaction; some of these factors include the level of compensation and benefits, the use of equitable promotion systems, the overall working conditions, the style of management and the type of position itself including the tasks involved and the challenges the respective position generates.It refers to general attitude in three areas namely specific job factors, individual adjustment and group relationship outside the job. Likewise, the term has been explained by many psychologists in different ways. In the present study, job satisfaction is defined as a pleasant and positive attitude possessed by a teacher towards his/her job and related factors. The main objective of the present investigation is to study about the job satisfaction of the higher secondary teachers with regard to the background variables namelygender, marital status, age group of the higher secondary teachers, subject handled them, type of school, nature of school and locality of school. Job Satisfaction Inventory developed by Naseema (1993)is used to collect relevant data. The sample consists of 98 higher secondary teachers from 13 higher secondary schools in KumbakonamTaluk, Thanjavur District of Tamil Nadu State. The data are analysedby 't' test and ANOVA. The results indicate that there is no significant difference among higher secondary teachers with regard to the background variables namely gender, marital status, age group of the higher secondary teachers, subject handled by them, type of school, nature of school and locality of school.

International Journal of Research, 2021

This study focused on job satisfaction of Teacher Educators as well as to compare the various level of job satisfaction of teacher educators who are working in different Govt.-aided, Autonomous and Self-Financed B.Ed. Colleges in West Bengal. Teacher is the backbone of any nation. If education is viewed because the backbone and energizing force for the national progress then the exalted and pivotal position of the teacher can't be ignored as she/he has been assigned the responsibility of educating the future generation. The progress and development of a nation largely depends on its teachers’ community due to their noble and large contributions in nation building. They have remarkable contributions in making and shaping each and every person of the society. The investigators choose various factors to measure the Level of Job Satisfaction of Teacher Training Colleges on the basis of multi dimensions that are Working Conditions, Salary Status, Understanding between Colleagues, Recognition by Others, Work Load, Availability of Power, job security, Gender, legal status , Educational Qualification, Locality, location of school , Age, experience, Family conditions, income status and professional development, Individual Status, Stream and Promotion Opportunities etc. The main objective of the present study is to analyze the job satisfactory level of Teacher Educators from different teacher education institutions in West Bengal. The methodology of the study may be a mixed type involving interpretative, analytical study of documents, survey questionnaire, interview, observation and study secondary sources, like books, articles, journal, thesis, university news, expert opinion and websites etc. Finally, meaningful suggestions are offered.

IAEME PUBLICATION, 2021

The fact that satisfied and happy workers are likely to be more productive is not an exemption of teachers. This paper, thus, examined, compared and tests, if there is any statistical significant difference between male and female teachers, married and unmarried teachers and College and Higher Secondary School teachers in Senapati, Manipur with respect to job satisfaction. A sample size of 140 including 70 College teachers and 70 Higher Secondary School teachers was collected using stratified sampling method. IBM SPSS Statistics version 23 was used for analyzing the collected data through which factor analysis, reliability test, descriptive statistics and independent sample t-test are applied. The study found that male teachers have higher level of job satisfaction than female teachers and married teachers are more satisfied with their job as compared to unmarried teachers while there is no significant difference between colleges and higher secondary schools teachers. The study also found that 86.43 percent of the teachers are moderately satisfied with their job.

2020

The present study was conducted on 160 teachers of different subjects (Hindi, English, Mathematics and Science) of secondary level under public sector schools to assess their job satisfaction. Results suggested that job satisfaction level was found maximum in mathematics subject teachers and minimum in Hindi. The key findings of this study was lack of better opportunity, low salary and the work that an individual find boring are certain issues which affect teacher’s responsibility. Low level of satisfaction was a significant cause to move out from their objectives and it proportionally affects learning methodology of students. Key-words: Public sector schools, English, Hindi, Mathematics, Science, Job satisfaction.

The objective of this study was to study the level of job satisfaction among post graduate teachers in different schools in Dehradun. The researcher used descriptive method involving measurement, evaluation, comparison, and interpretation. Total 360 PGTs, including equal number of males and females, were assessed. Dixit's Job satisfaction scale (DJSS) was used to study the job satisfaction level. Mean, standard deviation and t-test were applied for statistical analysis of data and to find out significant difference. Level of job satisfaction among PGTs was found more toward average. 50.56% female PGTs are above the average category of job satisfaction as compared with 45.83 % male PGTs. It is observed that high numbers of PGTs are less satisfied (54.17 %). Female PGTs are more jobs satisfied as compared with male PGTs. The study reveals that 22.22 % PGTs enjoyed good level and 23.61 % PGTs enjoyed the highest level of satisfaction in their job. 54.17 % PGTs are under the average and below average level of satisfaction in their job. More males are at low level of job satisfaction (21.11%) as compared with 13.33% female PGTs. The result is significant and it can be helpful to design further education policies to improve teaching job quality.