The relationship between salary policies and teacher morale.

Note on the application of factor analysis to the study of faculty morale.

“…Using a modification of chi square reported by McNemar (19SS,p. 232) it was discovered, contrary to the findings of Mathis (1959) and Chandler (1959), that the differential categories discriminated among the responses well beyond the .01 level of significance…”

“…A second approach groups items into categories on a more or less a priori basis, which results in a blurring of potential differences. Thus, the results reported by Chandler (1959) and Mathis (1959) indicated that individuals within the schools studied did not project differential feelings of morale into specific areas of their inventory. This finding, which is in contradiction to most industrial studies, can be best explained by an examination of the categories they used and their procedures for assigning items.…”

Economic, Legal, and Social Status of Teachers

“…Chandler (1959) and Mathis (1959) reported on the relation between types of salary schedules (merit versus nonmerit) and teacher morale; they concluded that, although morale appeared to be a general function of a multitude of interrelated variables, the type of pay plan in a school system was not a significant variable by itself in determining the morale level.…”

Job Satisfaction Researches of 1963

“…Results of the investigations reported in this article and listed in the bibliography suggest (the presence or absence of relationship between job satisfaction and the following topics: academic freedom [26, 381; achievement [ 12,13,21,221; administration and management [l, 3-5, 11, 12, 15, 18, 20-25, 28, 33, 36, 38, 39, 411; age 112, 13, 23-251; aspirations [9,38,391; attitudes [4,6,11,15,18,20,21,23,30,32,411; autonomy needs [19, 201; benefits [3, 11, 14, 18, 22, 26-28, 31-33, 411; board of education [3,11,[24][25][26]; career pattern [19]; changes in work situation [19,20,31,32,391; colleagues [I, 14,18,26,28,31,32,401; communication [18,25,26,31,321; community [1,4, 7, 11, 14, 15, 25, 38, 411; complexityof job [21, 37, 391; decision-making [12, 361; earnings [1-3~ 7, 14 18, 22, 15, 27, 28, 31,...…”