scholarly journals Measuring Teachers’ Job Satisfaction: A Locale and Gender Based Comparison of Secondary School Teachers

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (36) ◽  
pp. 70-93
Author(s):  
Nur Afny Juati ◽  
Mohamad Nizam Nazarudin ◽  
Zakiah Noordin ◽  
Jumadi Musa ◽  
Hujaimah @ Siti Syafiqah Juhumin

School teachers need organizational commitment so that they can contribute their services, efforts, and energy to the organization. This study aimed to examine the relationship between job satisfaction, emotional intelligence, motivation, and organizational commitment among secondary school teachers in Tambunan District. A total of 175 teachers from four secondary schools were involved in this study. The questionnaire containing 97 items of five Likert scales was used to measure respondents' responses. Statistical methods Pearson correlation, t-test, and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used. The results showed that a) there was no difference in job satisfaction, emotional intelligence, and gender-based motivation, b) there was no difference in job satisfaction based on the duration of service and there were differences in emotional and motivational intelligence based on service duration and c) there was a significant relationship between job satisfaction, intelligence emotions and motivation with organizational commitment. Based on this finding, teachers need to have high levels of work satisfaction, emotional intelligence, motivation, and commitment to remain in a stable state and thus develop students' potential through effective teaching and learning.


2021 ◽  
pp. 002205742110323
Author(s):  
Sonika Singh ◽  
Piar Chand Ryhal

This study examined the influence of teachers’ emotional intelligence (EI) on academic achievement and outlined the model with the mediating effect of job satisfaction (JS) between the EI and academic achievement. Survey method was employed to collect the information from 728 secondary school teachers belong to Himachal Pradesh, a state of Northern India, through various statistical tools. The results of the study showed that teachers’ emotional abilities were significantly and positively associated with academic achievement of students and showed R2 61% variance in academic achievement. The relationship between EI and academic achievement of students is partially mediated by JS.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 86-95
Author(s):  
Azim Omidvar ◽  
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Adel Zahed ◽  
Mehdi Moeinikia ◽  
Ali Khaleghkhah ◽  
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Objective: The present study explored the relationship between organizational agility, innovative work behaviors, and job satisfaction in second-grade secondary school teachers in Ardebil City, Iran. Methods: This was a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population of this research was all secondary school teachers in Ardebil City, Iran, in the academic year of 2016-2017. Among them, 129 teachers were selected by cluster random sampling method. The research tools were the Organizational Agility Scale (Zhang et al., 2000), the Innovative Work Behavior Questionnaire (Holman et al., 2011), and the Job Satisfaction Scale (Berifield et al., 1951). Data analysis was performed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and regression analysis method. Results: The obtained results indicated a significant positive correlation between organizational agility, innovative work behaviors, and teachers' job satisfaction. Furthermore, the results of regression analysis revealed that roughly 0.42% of the total variance of job satisfaction was predicted based on organizational agility and innovative work behaviors (P<0.001). Conclusion: The obtained results suggested that organizational agility and innovative work behaviors were related to the prevention of teachers' job satisfaction, which calls for the attention of authorities and educators to these variables.


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