Abstract:
Job satisfaction of academic staff of the college is very vital because teaching at university level
is venerated and sensitive job. Job satisfaction has been a question mark and in debate by the
researchers since long. It gained much importance due to its significance for the achievement of
objectives of any organization. The purpose of this study was to explore job satisfaction of
academic staff in JVTT College. To achieve the objective of this study, observation was made
and self-administered questions were distributed to 85 respondents and all the respondents
returned the questionnaires. The respondents were selected using stratified sampling technique
and within each strata random sampling techniques took place. Secondary data were also
extracted from prospectus and other published materials of JVTT College. The data collected
from the questioner were analyzed using statistical tools such as mean and standard deviation.
The result of this study illustrates, the academic staff was found least satisfied with contingent
rewards and they have average (ambivalent) level of all over job satisfaction. However, they
were not satisfied with salary increments, promotion and rewards. However demographic
characteristics have insignificant association with job satisfaction. More importantly the study
discovers job hygiene factors have strong influence than job motivators on job satisfaction.
Besides, from the hygiene factors, working condition is the most influential factor on job
satisfaction. Based on the findings of the study, the researcher forwards some recommendations
to the management of JVTT College to achieve academic staff job satisfaction by improving
tuition reimbursements to support academic staff and update organizational benefits based on
the current market for similar skills and professions.
