Factors Determining Job Satisfaction of Early Childhood Teachers

Abstract

Job satisfaction of teachers has recently demonstrated a great interest within educational researchers. However, little work has been done to explore this phenomenon in Pakistan. Therefore,the current study attempts to explore factors that determine job satisfaction of teachers teaching in early childhood classes in Karachi, Pakistan.It was hypothesized that after the literature review there will be a significant difference in job satisfaction between teachersrelevant to their academic qualification, and salary range. Moreover, it is generally expected that there is a relation between overall job satisfaction with nine factors viz. pay, promotion, supervision, fringe benefits, contingent rewards, operating conditions, coworkers, nature of work and communication. A sample of 133 teachers from early childhood settings was recruited for the study. The Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS; Spector, P., 1994) was administered to measure the factors that predict job satisfaction of the teachers. While, the data for the study was analyzed using two statistical tests: factor analysis of maximum likelihood and varimax rotation was used to explore the factors that determine job satisfaction and t-test deployed to explore the qualification, experience and salary differences. Results of the study suggest that the factors that determine job satisfaction in the study sample are (from highest to lowest) supervision, coworkers, promotion, continuous rewards, nature of work, pay, fringe benefits, communication and operational conditions.Furthermore, the data reveals no significant difference in the job satisfaction with regard to qualification and salary variables of the sample.