<strong>International</strong> Journal <strong>of</strong> <strong>Contemporary</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> Vol: 3, No: 6. June, 2012 ISSN 2156-7506 Available online at http://www.akpinsight.webs.com The values <strong>of</strong> individual Beta‟s are given in table 11, Tenure got negative Beta weight <strong>of</strong> –(0.374), which suggest job satisfaction and tenure <strong>of</strong> staff is negatively related ( inverse), with more tenure are experiencing lower job satisfaction level. The Beta weight <strong>of</strong> age is positive (0.098), which suggest that older faculty members have higher level <strong>of</strong> job satisfaction. Gender was found to be not statistically significant. Thus among faculty members <strong>of</strong> business institutes <strong>of</strong> Pakistan it is observed that rank and employee tenure are significant to predict level <strong>of</strong> job satisfaction, on the other side staff age and gender are weak predictors <strong>of</strong> job satisfaction among the faculty members. 5. CONCLUSION This research provides the evidence <strong>of</strong> an empirical study; where the impact <strong>of</strong> age, gender, rank and job tenure on job satisfaction <strong>of</strong> business institutes was explored. Job Satisfaction is key to individual as well as organizational success. Faculty members like other employees have certain issues when it‟s come to job satisfaction. This study was conducted to explore deep in to this context through Job description Index, the faculty members working in business institutes <strong>of</strong> Pakistan (from four provinces namely, Sindh, Punjab, KPK and Baluchistan) have shown their satisfaction with coworkers, nature <strong>of</strong> work , and supervision they received in their institutes. The study found Pay and chances for promotion is the causes <strong>of</strong> job dissatisfaction among the participants <strong>of</strong> the study. Tenure <strong>of</strong> staff and their rank was significantly associated with the overall level <strong>of</strong> job satisfaction (p
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