Perceived Organizational and Personal Factors Related to Job Satisfaction in Public School Teachers
Perceived Organizational and Personal Factors Related to Job Satisfaction in Public School Teachers
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1982
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Dodge, Joan Moir
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Milhollan, Frank
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Abstract
Teaching has always been a demanding occupation; and yet, in the
last few years, there has been increasing evidence that teachers are
expressing greater feelings of anxiety, frustration and dissatisfaction
with their jobs. While there appears much popular interest in the area of
teacher stress and job dissatisfaction, generally there has been little
research attention. More specifically, there has been little empirical
assessment using a multivariate model which examines the interaction of
organizational and personal variables related to job satisfaction in a
teacher population.
It is the purpose of this study to examine both perceived
organizational factors and personal factors and to determine how variation
in these factors leads to variation in job satisfaction in teachers. Based
on a multivariate model, the following two questions were addressed:
1. Does participation in decision-making, teaching anxiety, social
support in schools {perceived organizational factors) as well as
job involvement, years of teaching experience, age and sex
(personal factors) affect job satisfaction in public school
teachers?
2. Are perceived organizational or personal factors more influential
in affecting job satisfaction in teachers?
The study sample consisted of two hundred public school teachers
with 69% of them being classroom teachers who responded to a questionnaire.
Results were analyzed using simultaneous multiple regression for question
one and a hierarchical multiple regression analysis for question two.
Findings showed that 35% of the variance of job satisfaction could be
explained by these seven variables. The four variables of emotional
support, participation in decision-making, teaching anxiety, and age,
yielded significant contributions to job satisfaction. Using a
hierarchical method to determine the unique contribution of organization
versus personal factors to job satisfaction, results indicated that
organizational factors account for 33% of the variance in job satisfaction
while personal variables accounted for 2% of the variation. In general,
these findings suggested that perceived organizational factors were much
more important to the public school teachers' feelings of satisfaction with
their jobs than personal factors were.
These findings were discussed in terms of implications related to
helping school administrators focus on mental health issues of teachers as
well as the importance of organizational environment to job satisfaction.