Job satisfaction among secondary school teachers
This paper provides empirical evidence on the differences in the job satisfaction among secondary school teachers in Sabah with respect to gender, service category, job title, tenure and place of origin. It also attempts to identify the work dimension factors that affect the job satisfaction of th...
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Faculty of Management and Human Resource Development
2009
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| Summary: | This paper provides empirical evidence on the differences in the job satisfaction among secondary
school teachers in Sabah with respect to gender, service category, job title, tenure and place of
origin. It also attempts to identify the work dimension factors that affect the job satisfaction of the
teachers and to ascertain how these factors relate to the aforementioned teachers’ characteristics. A
survey was conducted with the participation of 200 teachers. The teachers’ job satisfaction were
determined by two separate measures namely overall and facet specific overall job satisfaction. The
work dimension factors were clustered into six comprising pay, working conditions, co-workers,
promotion, work itself and supervision. This study reveals that secondary school teachers in Tawau,
Sabah were generally satisfied with their job; there is a significant relationship between job
satisfaction and gender, whereby the male teachers were generally more satisfied than female
teachers. The graduate teachers were more satisfied than non-graduate teachers. The higher
ranking teachers were more satisfied than the ordinary teachers while the older teachers were more
satisfied than their younger counterparts. However, there is no significant relationship between
places of origin of teachers with job satisfaction. Based on the bivariate correlation tests, six work
dimensions of teaching job are significantly related to teachers’ job satisfaction. In addition, there
were significant different between the six dimensions by gender and service category of teachers.
Only co-workers dimension is not significantly different among teachers’ career stage and their
tenure of service. There was no significant difference between all the work dimensions and teachers’
place of origin. Based on the findings of the study several recommendations are forwarded |
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