Job satisfaction of teachers affiliated to different academic institutes

Pages: 136-141
Bharti Sharma and Ajay Phatak (Department of Psychology, Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi)The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the level of job satisfaction as well as the relationships between job satisfaction of teachers working in university, private and government colleges of Jaipur, Rajasthan. It aimed to find the association between the individual / demographic factors of the teachers to the Job Satisfaction scores, and it identified other important factors which influenced the teachers’ job satisfaction. The respondents were 150 teachers who worked in university, private college and Government College. Data was collected by questionnaire and the instrument used was the Job satisfaction survey(JSS).Responses from the survey were statistically analyzed with one way ANOVA and stepwise logistic regression analysis. Findings showed that overall satisfaction level of teachers working in all three institutes were low wherein somewhat high satisfaction scores were seen for fringe benefits and nature of work while dissatisfaction was seen with promotion and coworkers. Status and gender played a definitive role in affecting the satisfaction scores of the respondents. University teachers and females are more satisfied with their jobs than their counterparts. On the basis of the results certain measures were suggested for increasing the job satisfaction of the academicians.