Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to investigate factors affecting job satisfaction level for secondary school teachers in Lushoto District, Tanga region, in Tanzania. The research design applied was survey. Purposive sampling technique was adopted in finding secondary schools and teachers that present all secondary schools in the region. 119 teachers (respondents) were surveyed from both private secondary schools and public secondary schools. Satisfaction or dissatisfaction among categories (groups) of secondary school teachers was calculated in term of means, while then ANOVA test was applied to find job satisfaction difference among categories of secondary school teachers. Research findings revealed that Secondary school teachers were affected by job satisfaction factors which are: pay, social simulation, opportunity for promotion, job condition and job security. Finally by means of ANOVA test with the alpha 0.428 greater than 0.01 and 0.05 it revealed also that there is no significant difference in job satisfaction level among, art department teachers, science department teachers and other department teachers. According to such results the researcher therefore recommends that for raising job satisfaction level for secondary school teachers in all affected areas, for effectiveness and efficiency in the workplace as to have positive academic performance of the students (boosting student’s academic performance), the policy should be formulated to make adjustment on the following: 1) Secondary school teachers should be paid and given their returns in regard with time value of money and without delay, given enough time for social simulation (to meet their family, friends, shopping, etc.), promoted equally without delay, to offer good job condition, for example, housing and transport for teachers should be of importance and educational leaders (administrators) should use no kind of threat to their subordinators. 2) Science secondary school teachers, art secondary school teachers and other secondary school teachers in other departments should be recognized, appreciated and given priority equally.
Highlights
The research and the whole process were based on the fact that most of the teachers especially secondary school teachers face many job related challenges which to them act as dissatisfiers to fulfill their duties as oriented to them
According to such results the researcher recommends that for raising job satisfaction level for secondary school teachers in all affected areas, for effectiveness and efficiency in the workplace as to have positive academic performance of the students, the policy should be formulated to make adjustment on the following: 1) Secondary school teachers should be paid and given their returns in regard with time value of money and without delay, given enough time for social simulation, promoted without delay, to offer good job condition, for example, housing and transport for teachers should be of importance and educational leaders should use no kind of threat to their subordinators
As for this study results, public secondary school teachers were satisfied on pay Mean = 1.65, social simulation Mean = 1.92, working hours and cognition Mean = 1.75, all these data fall under dissatisfaction according to the scale, Table 1
Summary
The research and the whole process were based on the fact that most of the teachers especially secondary school teachers face many job related challenges which to them act as dissatisfiers to fulfill their duties as oriented to them To such extent the dissatisfied teachers would lead to ineffective teaching which may result in students’ poor academic performance. Davidson (2007) conducted a survey on teacher motivation in Tanzania and he found that most teachers were unhappy with their pay, fringe benefits, teachers’ accommodation, their promotion position, status and number of lessons allocated This implies that they had a low level of job satisfaction which may result in their poor performance, affecting students’ academic performance. The overall quality of passes has dropped by 1.61% from 2010 to 2011 (NECTA, 2014)
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