K.R.Sowmya1, Dr.N.Panchanatham2
Abstract Job satisfaction is in regard to one's feelings or state-of-mind regarding the nature of their work. Job satisfaction can be influenced by a variety of factors, eg, the quality of one's relationship with their supervisor, the quality of the physical environment in which they work, degree of fulfillment in their work, etc. Education sector is the most dynamic and developing sector.The turnover in the education sector is very high in recent times compared to past decades. The main reason is job satisfaction. This study attempts to find the satisfiers and dissatisfiers in the education sector that influences an employee’s turnover.
Key Words : Job Satisfaction, Satisfiers, dissatisfiers, faculty members
1 Research Scholar,Bharathiyar University,Coimbatore,India.
2Research Supervisor, Head-Department of Management Studies, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, India
A STUDY ON JOB SATISFACTION OF FACULTY MEMBERS IN EDUCATION SECTOR
K.R.Sowmya1, Dr.N.Panchanatham2
Introduction
Job satisfaction has been investigated in several disciplines such as psychology (Argyle 1989), sociology (Hodson,1985;Kalleberg and Loscocco ,1983), economics (Hamermesh 1977, 2001; Freeman, 1978), and management sciences (Hunt and Saul ,1975). Employers prefer that their employees be satisfied, since employees satisfaction is closely related to their labor market behavior such as productivity, quits and absenteeism. Several findings indicate that job satisfaction is as good predictor of quits as wages (Freeman, 1978; Akerlof et al., 1988; Clark et al. (1998). For this reason it is important to study the determinants of job satisfaction. Different aspects of job satisfaction are studied in the literature. These include job satisfaction with gender (Clark ,1997), wage growth (Clark ,1999), age (Hunt and Saul (1975), Clark et al., 1996), comparison income and unemployment