International journal of Contemporary Business Studies

International Journal of Contemporary Business Studies
Vol: 3, No: 6. June, 2012 ISSN 2156-7506
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supervision, the chances of promotions in organization and the
satisfaction with the job being performed by the staff.The results of the
study showed that the faculty members of business institutes in Pakistan
(included in sample) have shown their satisfaction with the nature of
work, coworkers or the people along with they are working, followed by
the supervision they received in their organizations. Chances for
promotion and salary (pay) were the main sources for job dissatisfaction.
The relationship among overall job satisfaction, rank of staff and tenure
was found be significant. Age and job satisfaction was positively related,
whereas gender was found to be as the weakest predictors of overall job
satisfaction. Though study indicate a relationship among overall job
satisfaction and other variables such as age , gender, tenure and rank and
also with five aspects of job satisfaction used in JDI but there is a need
for continuous research to find the relationship among job satisfaction
and other extraneous variables.
Key Words: Job Satisfaction, Faculty members, Business Institutes, Pakistan
1. INTRODUCTION
The main focus of this study is job satisfaction level of the employees of business institutes under certain
indicators. An attempt has been made to find out those indicators which can increase or decrease the job
satisfaction level of faculty members.As far education sector is concern, Pakistan is facing immense
challenges, in term of low literacy rate, less number of quality educational institutes, poor facilities and
more important the low motivation level of many of those who are the knowledge workers, the main
pillars of educational sectors, of course the faculty.
Keeping in views above mentioned problems, it is a daunting task for both management of the
universities and more important the Government, to take really focused efforts to enhance the quality of
education and provide better opportunities to the young generation. To provide quality facilities, updated
courses related to 21 st century, highly motivated teachers, teachers those who can lead the young
generation towards success .The problems of educational sectors can only be removed when, faculty,
management and the policy makers can join their hands together to overcome the issues faced by the
education sector of Pakistan.
Job satisfaction has become a buzz world in educational institutes as well as in other organizations. Job
satisfaction is the most important factor, which every organization dream to cultivate in their staff. Much
of the research work in this area has analyzed that turnover, absenteeism; job roles and extra jobs
behavior are the main factors which affect on job attitude of staff. Satisfaction is an outcome of the
reinforce system of the organization and the needs of the staff (Lofquist & Dawis, 1969, p.53). In Another
research (Locke, 1976) indicated that it is a positive inner drive that one gets out of the good appraisal of
his or her job. Job satisfaction is sense of happiness that staff will feel when they fulfill their tasks and
they achieve their results (Locke & Henne, 1986, p.21) and further Porter et al. (1975) found that it is a
feeling that one gets when he / she achieve his or her goals. Job satisfaction has been researched since
many years in and outside Pakistan; a lot of researches have been conducted on the topic. Great deal of
literature is available which is focused on explain job satisfaction and factors affecting the level of job
satisfaction among staff and how job satisfaction is related with the job, people along with staff works,
supervision that they get , salary , working environment, organizational rules, and policies and the
chances of promotion . Majority of published work found that job satisfaction is about balance among
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