PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the levels of job satisfaction among academicians in the universities of Turkey and to examine the effects of demographics on levels of satisfaction among them.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire‐based study was conducted in 648 academicians working in the Universities of Turkey. Data were collected using the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) short form.FindingsThe job satisfaction levels of the academicians were found to be moderately high. Social status was ranked as the highest and compensation was ranked as the lowest of the examined items. The results of the study indicated that professors reported a higher level of job satisfaction as compared to instructor and research assistants. Nonetheless, among the demographic variables age, length of service in present university and in higher education as a whole were significantly related to job satisfaction. Marital status and gender were not significantly related to job satisfaction.Originality/valueThis study shows the job satisfaction levels of academicians and the interrelationships between demographic characteristics and satisfaction in the Universities of Turkey, hence the results from this study can help the academicians and the university administrators to increase the satisfaction level.

Emek-yoğun bir sektör olan turizm sektöründe yer alan konaklama işletmelerinde hizmeti satın alan müşteri ile hizmeti sunan çalışanın iç içe, yüz yüze olmasından dolayı işgücü ve özellikle de iş tatmini büyük önem taşımaktadır. Çünkü, konaklama işletmelerinde çalışanların iş tatmini, müşterinin memnuniyeti, hizmetin kalitesi ve dolayısıyla da işletmenin başarısına doğrudan etki etmektedir. Bu çerçevede araştırmanın amacı, konaklama işletmelerindeki çalışanların iş tatmininin İş Tanımlama Ölçeği ile ölçümü ve yaş, cinsiyet, medeni durum, eğitim gibi demografik değişkenlerin iş tatmini üzerindeki etkilerinin incelenmesidir. Çalışma sonucunda, iş tatmininin yaş, eğitim, turizm eğitimi değişkenleri bakımından farklılaşma gösterdiği saptanmıştır.

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Educational institutions have been increasingly started to use information technologies (ITs) for improving the service quality and achieving the effective organizational outputs in a competitive global environment. An individual's intention to use ITs is a crucial factor in determining the success or failure of an information technology (IT) system implementation. This study attempts to investigate the factors affecting the intention to use ITs from the academicians' perspectives in Turkey. This research extends the technology acceptance model (TAM) framework with subjective norm (SN) and facilitating conditions (FC) acting as external variables. The model has been tested using web-based data collected from 510 academicians. The findings demonstrate that this extended TAM can explain 80% of the variance of intention to use ITs. And also, SN and FC are potential variables that may be used to extend the TAM for the research on the academicians' intention to use towards ITs. This study reveals that educational managers can use this research model as a helpful tool in better understanding stakeholders' behaviors related to the technology acceptance, and also in the process of IT investment, implementation and renovation.