An Empirical Study on Job Satisfaction amongst College & University Teachers

The present paper identifies and discusses the factors that affect the job satisfaction among college and university teachers. As job satisfaction is an important issue in the higher education because if the teachers in university/colleges are satisfied enough to accomplish their goals effectively, then only they would be motivated to contribute effectively towards higher education. Survey method has been used to collect the research data from faculty members of college and universities of district Jalandhar and Amritsar in the state of Punjab. Factor Analysis has been applied to find out those factors that are responsible for job satisfaction among college and university teachers. Seven factors have been extracted by applying factor analysis. The study revealed that the most important factors that are responsible for job satisfaction among college and university teachers are "Possibility of Growth and Administration" followed by "Salary/Monetary Growth", followed by "Hygiene & Infrastructure", followed by "Possibility of Turnover", Coordination & Cooperation, "Interpersonal Relations in Profession" and "Unbiased Administration".