A Study On Mapping Job Satisfaction and Its Effect on Competency Inclusiveness among the Teaching Faculties

It is known that research into job satisfaction started in the field of industry and business administration, with a special emphasis being laid on the working classes. Later on this research moved into the field of education, with more concentration being placed on the teaching sector. Abdualkhalig (1982)”, pointed out that the majority of job satisfaction research has been directed towards lower level employees, adding that it is limited with regards to looking at managers, technicians and professionals. Furthermore, Bacharch and Mitchell (1983)” have expressed that within the educational context the importance of the reality of teachers and their attitudes towards their jobs came at the cost of studying the importance of the reality of other employees in the educational context, such as self financing teaching faculties job satisfaction. “As senior faculty members retire at the leading U.S. universities over the next decade, it is increasingly likely that they will be replaced by younger faculty members who are women, under-represented minorities or foreign-born scholars. This changing landscape of faculty members at U.S. universities will require that university administrators deal with issues related to faculty job satisfaction across a variety of personal and professional dimensions(Okpara, Squillace, & Erondu, 2005; Tack & Patitu, 1992)”. “Similarly situation prevailing in India, here most of the self financing college teaching resources are female and fresher too. In the dawned of this millennium, educational systems face new challenges as they move into an era of reorganization stressing site-based management, teacher empowerment, and the importance of the work team (Lee,Dedrick & Smith, 1991).” Reconsideration of teachers well being in the new ear is became obligatory. Hence in this paper we made an attempt to revisits the job satisfaction of the teaching faculties and its effect on competency inclusiveness amongst the teaching resource of self financing colleges in India
1.    Statement of problem: While the majority of previous job satisfaction studies have focused on industrial and organizational settings, there is much less literature on job satisfaction levels of academic faculty members. Tack and Patitu (1992)” performed a count of the number of articles indexed within the research databases ERIC and Psyc INFO during the period of 1970–1992 on the topic of job satisfaction. They found that only 13.7% offal satisfaction articles were focused on faculty job satisfaction. According tope arson and Seiler (1983, p. 36)”6 and the researcher indented to made a similar count would understand in the database of science direct in the year 2009 only 368article were focused job satisfaction and in the year 2010 they were 65 article are focused on faculties job satisfaction perhaps “this area has not received attention because a high level of job satisfaction generally has been presumed to exist in university setting.” “The urgency of a valid measure of job satisfaction, as proposed by Rosnowski,M., & Hulin .C(1992) was possibly the motivation behind the numerous research efforts pertaining to job satisfaction.”. A comparison in which an actual outcome level was lower than an expected outcome level, would resulted in dissatisfaction (Lawer, 1973)8 The are 17625 colleges in the country out of these14000 only come under the purview of UGC’S system, among which 40% colleges reorganized under the 2(f) ,which means60 % of the colleges in our country are not assessed even minimum qualification.

Amongst which 42 % of the institution private owned and run catering to 37 % of the students enrolled in the higher education that is 3-1 million out of 8-4 million. Further human resources demand in India is increasing 18 % ever year but growth of higher education is

Lecturer, Medi-caps Institute of Technology and Management, Indore
only 11%, hence privately owned institution need is expanding. Government and universities have granted recognition /affiliation to unaided colleges and many universities have authorized new self-financing courses even in government and aided college. As of now more than 50 % higher education in India is imparted through private institution. A highly quality of teaching staff is the corner stone of a successful educational system. Daily interaction between teachers and students is all the centre of the education process: Attracting and retaining high quality teaches is thus primary necessity for higher education in India. Then it an important thing to understand the factors behind the retention of the high quality faculty in higher education. One such factor is job satisfaction. Hence it is important to study the job satisfaction and competency of teachers and their attitude. In this context the researchers make the following research questions.

i.    Are the teaching faculties working in the Arts and Science colleges are satisfied towards their working condition?
ii.    Are the teaching faculties working in the Arts and Science College are satisfied towards their pay and what extant it would affect their performance?
iii.    Art the teaching faculties in the Arts and Science College are satisfied toward the policy framework of the arts and Science College?
iv.    Is the job satisfaction may affect competency of the faculty?

2.    Objectives of the study:
1.    To mapping job satisfaction of the teaching faculties towards the workplace condition, compensation and policy framework.
2.    To know the job satisfaction and its effect on competency inclusiveness of the teaching faculties of self financing college.

3.    Scope of the study: This study concerns with mapping job satisfaction and its effects of competency of teaching faculties amongst the self financing College (Core) in India. There are several self financing colleges among which we have selected only 10 colleges for this study. Further teaching faculties alone taken in to account invariable their designation.

4.    Research Methodology
a)    Method of research: This study is based on descriptive method of research.
b)    Population of the study: We have selected 10 Self Financing colleges. In which there are 465 faculties are working. Total populations have taken from university web portals (Teaching resource of university).
c)    Sample of the study: Sample has selected on the snow ball basis .There 50 faculties are taken for this study. Hence sample size is 10.75 from total population
d)    Data collection: Primary method of data collection have employed for this research.
                 Questionnaire had prepared exclusively to meet the objectives of the study.
e)    Tools of the study: Simple percentage tools and chi-square are used to analyze the data.







5.    Analysis and Interpretation:
Table -1

From the analysis we would understand that 40 % of the teaching resources are not satisfied toward the policy defining by the management.34% of the respondent are satisfied towards amount the paper work doing by the teaching resources. Majority of the variable are showed positive. Hence it shows faculties of self financing College are satisfied towards workplace condition.

Table -2

Faculties of College are not satisfied towards Compensation given by these colleges. In fact salary of teaching faculties is starts from Rs. 3000.

Even in this, some of the colleges are dispensing the salary once in two months or
three months.

Table – 3

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