The Effect of Age and Marital Status on Job Satisfaction
THE EFFECT OF AGE AND MARITAL STATUS ON THE JOB SATISFACTION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS
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Submitted By:
Solomon Fernando Gomez
Muhammad Imran Malik
Ph.D. Scholar.
Submitted To: Dr. Nadeem Safwan
Foundation University Institute of Management and Computer Sciences
Rawalpindi.
The Effect of Age and Marital Status on the Job Satisfaction of University Teachers
Abstract
This study has been conducted with a view to see the level of job satisfaction among the married and unmarried, university teachers within Rawalpindi and Islamabad. This study probes how much satisfied are the university teachers by looking at a specific aspects like age and marital status, with the satisfaction level of the teachers. The study has been conducted by using an adopted questionnaire survey. The questionnaire was distributed among the private and public sector university teachers, on the basis of convenience sampling. A sample of 200 university teacher was considered and 107 respondents responded to the questionnaires, by producing 53.5% response rate. Among which 69.2% were male respondents and 30.8% were female respondents. To confirm its reliability, Cronbach’s Alpha was calculated, which resulted into a score of 0.835. Analysis and evaluation was done using SPSS. Major findings of the study showed that the teachers in the initial ages are less satisfied than the teachers having age 45 years and above. And unmarried teachers are more satisfied as compared to married teachers.
Keywords – Job satisfaction, University teachers, Pakistan, Islamabad, Rawalpindi.
Introduction
Several studies have been conducted on the subject of job satisfaction, very few of them are about the university teachers. This paper looks into the level of Job satisfaction among the university teachers of Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
Pakistan has many universities in the public as well as the private sector, which are playing a pivotal role in spreading higher level of education, which ultimately contribute
[pic]
Submitted By:
Solomon Fernando Gomez
Muhammad Imran Malik
Ph.D. Scholar.
Submitted To: Dr. Nadeem Safwan
Foundation University Institute of Management and Computer Sciences
Rawalpindi.
The Effect of Age and Marital Status on the Job Satisfaction of University Teachers
Abstract
This study has been conducted with a view to see the level of job satisfaction among the married and unmarried, university teachers within Rawalpindi and Islamabad. This study probes how much satisfied are the university teachers by looking at a specific aspects like age and marital status, with the satisfaction level of the teachers. The study has been conducted by using an adopted questionnaire survey. The questionnaire was distributed among the private and public sector university teachers, on the basis of convenience sampling. A sample of 200 university teacher was considered and 107 respondents responded to the questionnaires, by producing 53.5% response rate. Among which 69.2% were male respondents and 30.8% were female respondents. To confirm its reliability, Cronbach’s Alpha was calculated, which resulted into a score of 0.835. Analysis and evaluation was done using SPSS. Major findings of the study showed that the teachers in the initial ages are less satisfied than the teachers having age 45 years and above. And unmarried teachers are more satisfied as compared to married teachers.
Keywords – Job satisfaction, University teachers, Pakistan, Islamabad, Rawalpindi.
Introduction
Several studies have been conducted on the subject of job satisfaction, very few of them are about the university teachers. This paper looks into the level of Job satisfaction among the university teachers of Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
Pakistan has many universities in the public as well as the private sector, which are playing a pivotal role in spreading higher level of education, which ultimately contribute
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