A Comparative Study on Workers Job Satisfaction towards Public and Private Limited Tea Garden in Golaghat District, Assam

Abstract

The present study discusses the Job satisfaction level between public and private Ltd. tea garden workers in Golaghat district of Assam, India. Job satisfaction which refers to the positive or favourable attitudes towards their work. Satisfactory attitude encourages a worker to work efficiently while dissatisfaction leads to disappointment of instructive objective. A questionnaire on Job satisfaction developed by Dr. B. C. Muthayya (1984) was administered for data collection. A total number of 190 workers were selected for data collection. Out of 190 respondents 117 respondents were Public Ltd., and 73 respondents were from private tea garden. Out of 117 Public limited, 46 were male and 71 female. Similarly, out of 73 Private tea garden workers, 34 were male and 39 female. The main objective of this study is to find out the significant difference between public and private Ltd. tea garden workers. SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) were employed for data analysis. Data were analyzed based on descriptive statistics including ‘t’ test to see the significant differences between two public and private Ltd. tea garden workers, and Inferential statistics –ANOVA to see the significant differences between four groups of employees ( Public male &female and Private male and female). In terms of job satisfaction, the ‘t' results demonstrate that there is a considerable difference between public and private, public male and female, and private male and female tea garden workers. ANOVA result shows the significant difference among the four groups. Duncan’s multiple range tests also depicts the differences between all pairs of means except the group of public female and private male. The obtained results were compared to those of other similar studies.