Comparative Analysis of Job Satisfaction between Government v/s Private Primary School Teachers of Haryana, India

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Rachna Rani (Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana)

A teacher is a core element of our educational system, a creator of humanity, and the builder of our society. A teacher is a backbone of a nation and its progress depends upon the education system. A significant part of our lives is focused on work, and job satisfaction is one of the most prominent theoretical matters in the context of an individual’s life. Many people believe that educators build a society because they choose this career path because of the many advantages it offers in terms of career transformation, leadership, satisfaction, and healthy relationships with colleagues and students. The main objective of the current study was to determine the level of job satisfaction among primary school teachers, regardless of their employment status (private vs. government) or gender (male vs. female) in District Hisar, affiliated with the HBSE Board of Haryana. In this present research, 120 primary school teachers from both government and private schools were examined. The Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS) Inventory by Spector (1994) was used to collect information. To achieve the objective, descriptive statistics and independent t-test were processed in this research study. The obtained data were analysed by using SPSS version 25.0. The findings revealed that was a significant difference between government and private primary school teachers. There was a higher level of satisfaction among government school teachers compared to private primary school teachers.