The relationship between alumni satisfaction and work experiences

Abstract

Although alumni surveys frequently include questions about work experiences, little information is available about the relationship between work experiences and alumni satisfaction with college. The results of the present research indicate that work experiences are significantly related to alumni ratings of their college experiences. Specifically, alumni who are satisfied with their jobs are more likely to report being satisfied with their education experiences. The results of this research also indicate that women are less satisfied with their pay than men. Compared to men, women are neither more dissatisfied with the types of work they are performing nor more likely to be looking for another job. Counter to expectation, dissatisfaction with pay has a more significant effect on ratings of college experiences for women than for men..

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Explaining Career Satisfaction on the Basis of Alumni Satisfaction, Gap Period and Gender: Evidence from Turkish Higher Education

“…For instance, Pace (1979) found that women tended to be more satisfied than men (Pike, 1994). Similar to Pace (1979), Phillippi (1990) indicated that women tended to be more satisfied with college than men.…”

“…Understanding the dimensions of alumni satisfaction is a vital for developing educational outcomes and success criteria and evaluating academic programs (Pike, 1994;Hartman & Schmidt, 1995;Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005). And also it is pivotal to find an answer to the question of "why is important to understand alumni satisfaction?"…”

“…Some of them have suggested that alumni satisfaction is a beneficial tool to have an idea about the effect of the universities on students (Pike, 1994;Pace, 1979). According to these studies, intellectual and personal developments were among key satisfaction outcomes (Umbach & Porter, 2002).…”

“…As an independent variable alumni satisfaction was measured by means of different general satisfaction and alumni satisfaction scales adopted by Hartman and Schmidt (1995) who have developed the scale which inspired by Hunt (1977), Oliver (1980) and Pike's (1994) studies. Career satisfaction was measured by using Greenhaus, Parasuraman and Wormley's (1990) career satisfaction scale.…”