Article Title :
A Study of Job Satisfaction among Secondary School Teachers in relation to Locality, Subject, Gender and Types of Teachers

Author Name :
Prof. Lalit Kumar

Keyword :
Job satisfaction, Secondary School teachers, Locality, Subject, Gender, Types of teachers

Publisher :
Politic India Publication

Download URL :

Abstract :
Considering the importance of job satisfaction of teachers for the education system the researchers have identified the concept for study and after due review of the area, the researchers have chosen variables like Locality, Subject, Gender and Types of Teachers. By using the Stratified Random Sampling Technique, the researchers have taken 500 Secondary School Teachers from Tirhut Commissionary of Bihar as a sample. Objectives of the study are to compare the job satisfaction of (a) Rural-Urban (b) Science – Arts (c) Male – Female and (d) Regular-Niyojit Secondary School Teachers. Null hypotheses have been formulated in the light of the specified objectives. The job Satisfaction Scale of Kumar and Mutha has been used to collect data. Analysis of the data has been made by using t-test. The data has been analyzed along all the four identified dimensions of the scale as Attitude Towards Profession (ATP). Attitude Towards Working Condition (ATWC), Attitude Towards Institution (ATI) & Attitude Towards Authority (ATA) besides on Composite Job Satisfaction. Findings of the study are of mixed nature as (1) only 28.40% of Secondary School Teachers have high Job Satisfaction. (2) On ATWC and Composite Job Satisfaction Urban group was found significantly superior, on ATI & ATA dimensions Rural group was found significantly superior and on ATP dimension no significant difference was found. (3) On ATP dimension Science group was found significantly superior, on ATI dimension Arts group was found significantly superior and on ATWC, ATA & also on Composite Job Satisfaction no significant difference was found (4) No significant difference was found between Male and Female group on ATP, ATWC, ATI & ATA dimensions and also on Composite Job satisfaction. (5) On ATP & ATWC dimensions and also on Composite Job Satisfaction Regular Teacher group was found significantly superior. On ATI dimension Niyojit Teacher group was found significantly superior and on ATA dimension no significant difference was found.