A Study of Correlation of Motivational Factor with Overall Job Satisfaction of B- School Faculties in the Context of Pune Region

Abstract

Education is very important source of knowledge in today’s world. A good education system in place and its benefits and success entirely depends on the quality of the faculties. It is important that the faculties must have contentment or sense of fulfilment with their job. This is the utmost essential factor in the area of higher education. Several studies have examined from developing countries on Job satisfaction of faculties in Management education. Management education is having more demand in today’s competition. Management education is become a big shot in business world. Job satisfaction can be defined as the encouraging emotive feeling arising from getting what someone is expecting out of. . High level of Job satisfaction shows good emotional and mental state of faculties. If the faculties are not contended with their work profile it is possible that they will not put more efforts in giving their performance which is directly affect the education system and students of the nation. The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between demographic characteristics (age, gender, academic rank, Working experience in academics) & Job satisfaction of B school Faculties in Pune Region. Data was collected through survey method. A questionnaire is designed to survey with 300 faculties from selected B School in Pune region. Results of this study showed that most faculties were only a moderate level of job satisfaction. However, female faculty members were less satisfied than male faculties. It was found that male faculties outnumber female faculties. Faculty’s ages are evenly spread over all age groups. Maximum numbers of faculties have experience below 10 years.