Open AccessMeasuring the Level of Job Satisfaction of University Academics: a Cross-Sectional Study from Bangladesh
Author(s) -
Amitav Saha,
Md. Rabiul Awal
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
economic insights - trends and challenges
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2284-8584
pISSN - 2284-8576
DOI - 10.51865/eitc.2021.03.05
Subject(s) - promotion (chess) , job satisfaction , psychology , sample (material) , work (physics) , regression analysis , cross sectional study , medical education , medicine , social psychology , engineering , political science , mathematics , statistics , mechanical engineering , chemistry , chromatography , politics , law , pathology
This study inspects the job satisfaction level of academic staff at Rajshahi University, Bangladesh. Important factors that have an impact on job satisfaction levels are work itself, pay, promotion opportunities, supervision, and relationship with co-workers. A sample of 120 teachers is selected by convenient sampling from the nine faculties at Rajshahi University. With the support of SPSS, factor analysis, Co-relation, and regression tests are conducted to generate results. Through the statistical analysis, it is found that teachers are more satisfied with work itself, relationship with co-workers, and they are less satisfied with the pay structure, promotion opportunities, and supervision. Thus findings recommend that boosting the work facilities and ensuring the smooth and cooperative relationship with co-workers could be helpful tools in motivating faculty members and subsequently get attached with their work.