BODY OF THESIS
CHAPTER 1
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
1.1 Introduction
Being in the teaching profession can exposed teachers to a high risk of stress. They had the potential to experience stress and burnout from different sources at different levels. This researched attempts to determine the relationship between workload pressure, unsatisfied needs/wants, new technology and working environment with job performance among teachers in secondary school in Muar, Johor. In this chapter, it provided a short overview of the work related stressors experienced by teachers and how they affected job performance. This overview will show preliminary problems arisen within teacher’s profession, preliminary researched objectives and researched questions. Other than that, it discuss about the parties who gained benefits from the study, limitations of the study and definition of terms that related to the topic discussed.
1.2 Background of the Study
The amount of research on teacher’s stress has increased steadily, and has now become a major research topic in many countries (Vandenberghe and Huberman, 1999; Kyriacou, 2001; Hanizah, 2003). According to The Health and Safety Executive (2000) in the United Kingdom, it was reported that teaching is the most stressful occupation, compared to other professions, such as nursing, managing, professional and community service. It was also reported that two out of five teachers in the United Kingdom experienced stress, compared to one in five workers from other occupations. This was due to the roles and responsibilities of a teacher are multitasked in the present day school system. With the change in the type of teaching culture and added managerial responsibilities for teachers; included planning and executing instructional lessons, assessing students based on specific objectives derived from a set curriculum, and communication with parents, teachers’ responsibilities seem to be different compared to few years back.
There were substantial amount of
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
1.1 Introduction
Being in the teaching profession can exposed teachers to a high risk of stress. They had the potential to experience stress and burnout from different sources at different levels. This researched attempts to determine the relationship between workload pressure, unsatisfied needs/wants, new technology and working environment with job performance among teachers in secondary school in Muar, Johor. In this chapter, it provided a short overview of the work related stressors experienced by teachers and how they affected job performance. This overview will show preliminary problems arisen within teacher’s profession, preliminary researched objectives and researched questions. Other than that, it discuss about the parties who gained benefits from the study, limitations of the study and definition of terms that related to the topic discussed.
1.2 Background of the Study
The amount of research on teacher’s stress has increased steadily, and has now become a major research topic in many countries (Vandenberghe and Huberman, 1999; Kyriacou, 2001; Hanizah, 2003). According to The Health and Safety Executive (2000) in the United Kingdom, it was reported that teaching is the most stressful occupation, compared to other professions, such as nursing, managing, professional and community service. It was also reported that two out of five teachers in the United Kingdom experienced stress, compared to one in five workers from other occupations. This was due to the roles and responsibilities of a teacher are multitasked in the present day school system. With the change in the type of teaching culture and added managerial responsibilities for teachers; included planning and executing instructional lessons, assessing students based on specific objectives derived from a set curriculum, and communication with parents, teachers’ responsibilities seem to be different compared to few years back.
There were substantial amount of