LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 5 May 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Job Satisfaction of Teachers at Secondary School Level

Saira Ijaz Ahmad, Ph.D. Scholar
Samina Malik, Ph.D.

Abstract

Teaching is a dignified, splendid, distinguished and noble profession. No doubt that the effectiveness and success in the teaching-learning process can be influenced by the satisfaction level of teachers.

This study investigates the satisfaction level of secondary school teachers in Pakistan. Two-hundred secondary school teachers were selected through stratified proportionate random sampling technique as the sample of the study.

A questionnaire consisting of seventeen questions was developed by the researchers. Data analysis was done by using SPSS version 15. Mean and t-test were used for this purpose. It was concluded that the teachers are not satisfied with their salaries, grades and promotion procedure but they feel satisfied with the job security and are satisfied that they have adopted a noble profession.

Keywords: Job Satisfaction, Secondary School Teachers, noble profession, job security.

Introduction

Satisfaction in life plays a crucial rule for a happy, blooming and successful life. Hartog and Oosterbeek (1998) concluded that highly educated people bear low level of overall satisfaction in life as compared to the people having intermediate level of education.

Job satisfaction is a combination of all the encouraging and/or inauspicious impressions of an employee about his/her works/job. Satisfied employees have optimistic, constructive and encouraging opinion and mind-set about their job (Rocca & Konstanski, 2001; Dessler, 2005).

Gary (1996) has highlighted two different features of job satisfaction "facet satisfaction and overall satisfaction". Here facets include promotion, recognition, etc., and the overall job satisfaction is the computed degree of satisfaction obtained by the collection of different components.

Tsigilis et al., (2006) said that job satisfaction of employees helps to manipulate a variety of features about their work that may include competency and output.

Several factors play their role to generate satisfaction: salary, work places, leadership and management styles, promotion, and other colleagues (Williams and Sandler, 1995; DeVane and Sandy, 2003). Lise & Judge (2004) predict that accomplishment of organizational objectives largely depends on the contentment and satisfaction of their labor force. Saiyadain (1998) has reported that age, gender, qualification, income and job experience play a crucial role in the job satisfaction of workers.

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Saira Ijaz Ahmad, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Education
International Islamic University Islamabad
Ialamabad, 44000
Pakistan
sairaijaz@ymail.com

Samina Malik, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
International Islamic University Islamabad
Ialamabad, 44000
Pakistan
samina.malik@iiu.edu.pk
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