Job Satisfaction of Teachers In Relation to Professional Commitment

Abstract

Teaching is a highly noble profession and teachers are always a boon to the society. The ultimate process of education could be simplified as a meaningful interaction between the teacher and the taught. The teacher thus plays a direct and crucial role in molding a pupil towards education. Since a teacher is a role model for the students, job satisfaction and professional commitment of teachers become very vital in the fields of education. Thus the researcher felt the need to investigate the job satisfaction in relation to professional commitment of secondary school teachers. The sample of this study consisted of 300 teachers selected from Punjab in India. Job Satisfaction Scale standardized by Dr. (Mrs.) Meera Dixit (1993) and Professional Commitment scale developed by Dr. Ravinder Kaur and Sarabjit Kaur (2011) was administered to collect the data. The result indicates that there exists a significant difference between male and female secondary school teachers in their job satisfaction and there exists no significant difference between male and female secondary school teachers in their professional commitment. Further result shows that there exists positive significant relationship between job satisfaction and professional commitment. This proves that job satisfaction and professional commitment are significantly related to each other.

Teachers’ commitment, self-efficacy and job satisfaction as communicated by trained teachers

“…There appears to be a strong correlatiom between teachers' commitment and job satisfaction as evident in several studies (Akram et al, 2015;Ayele, 2014;Bashir, 2017;Bull, 2005;Demirtas ¸, 2015). Bashir (2017) discovered a positively significant relationship between professional commitment and job satisfaction in secondary schools in India after conducting a survey research on secondary school teachers there.…”

“…There appears to be a strong correlatiom between teachers' commitment and job satisfaction as evident in several studies (Akram et al, 2015;Ayele, 2014;Bashir, 2017;Bull, 2005;Demirtas ¸, 2015). Bashir (2017) discovered a positively significant relationship between professional commitment and job satisfaction in secondary schools in India after conducting a survey research on secondary school teachers there. According to the study, professional commitment played a significant role in job satisfaction because those who were committed created a friendly learning environment and gave prominence to addressing students' problems, resulting in greater job satisfaction.…”

“…Job satisfaction is defined as a type of attitude to one's job. This form of attitude is the consequence of diverse attitudes of an employee to his or her job in terms of salary, service condition, opportunity, working condition and colleagues (Bashir, 2017). Job satisfaction refers to the feelings of individuals of their professions and the different parts of their jobs; it is an attitudinal variable that investigates several aspects of the job with the areas of satisfaction and dissatisfaction addressed to allow for improvements in the latter mentioned by Spector (1997) in his highly cited book on job satisfaction.…”

The Influence of Perceived Organizational Support on Teachers’ Job Satisfaction: The Mediating Roles of Climate for Initiative and Climate for Psychological Safety

“…As the literature is reviewed, many factors directly and indirectly associated with the school level, which are related to teachers' job satisfaction, have been mentioned. Support from the school principal (Al-Mahdy & Alazmi, 2021), positive school climate, relationships with students, financial situation (Muga, Onyango & Jackline, 2017), relationships with other teachers, workload, in-school solidarity (Mishra & Dkhar, 2016), ease of access to professional development opportunities (Shafi, 2016), professional commitment (Bashir, 2017), organizational commitment (Tharikh, Ying, Saad & Sukumaran, 2016), school principal's effectiveness as a leader and perceived organizational support (Bogler & Nir, 2012) are stated as factors which have an impact on teachers' job satisfaction. As can be understood from the variables that are claimed to be effective, perceived organizational support and positive school climate are the main factors that are effective at the school level.…”

Investigating EFL Teachers’ Perceptions Towards Professional Engagement

“…Two indicators included in teachers' professional engagement are based on teachers' commitment to teaching and the teachers' efficacy towards their profession (Buettner et al, 2016). According to Bashir (2017), teachers who are committed to their work will strive to improve their individual professional development and the development of their students. In other words, teachers must be committed to their work to educate their students effectively.…”