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Examining Faculty Workload as a Single Antecedent of Job Satisfaction among Higher Public Education Staff in Kelantan, Malaysia
Author(s) -
Noraani Mustapha,
Wee Yu Ghee
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
business and management horizons
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2326-0297
DOI - 10.5296/bmh.v1i1.3205
Subject(s) - workload , job satisfaction , psychology , antecedent (behavioral psychology) , sample (material) , pearson product moment correlation coefficient , organizational citizenship behavior , applied psychology , public university , medical education , social psychology , management , organizational commitment , medicine , mathematics , statistics , political science , chemistry , chromatography , economics , public administration
The objective of this study is to determine the influence of faculty workload on job satisfaction among lecturers in four public universities in Kelantan. Sample was randomly selected through systematic procedure. There were 320 samples responded the self-administered questionnaires. The data was analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation and the result indicated that there was negative significant relationship between daily faculty workload and job satisfaction. Organization should consider this variable in promoting satisfaction among employees in order to enhance organizational citizenship.