A STUDY ON THE JOB SATISFACTION OF TEACHERS OF GUJARAT AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND CAMPUS, ANAND

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dc.contributor.advisorPATEL, H. L.
dc.contributor.authorMALIK, CHANDER PARKASH
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-06T03:15:13Z
dc.date.available2018-04-06T03:15:13Z
dc.date.issued1988
dc.description.abstractThe teacher is considered as one of the vital pivots of the society . He is said to be an architect of "future generation". The society has many expectations from him and in a democratic set up the importance of the teacher can not be minimised because education has been regarded as one of the most important instruments of democracy. But on the other hand, the teachers today are being held partly responsible for various problems, like unrest and in discipline. It is the opinion of even common people that teachers do not discharge their duties properly. The performance of an university can be best judged by the competence of its scientists and accomplishments of its objectives. The position of teachers of agricultural universities is different than the traditional universities . The broad work situation , teaching - research - extension expects many things from a teacher of an agricultural university. Moreover, he is directly concerned with national problem of food, fibre , oil seed, pulse and milk production. He has to put tangible results before the community to show his worth. And the achievement of these results depends upon satisfaction of teachers with their jobs. Mahurkar (1931), Shrivastva (1983) and Rao (1986) have emphasized the need for the scientific study of the problem of measuring job satisfaction of the employees since it can yield important implication for the improvement of the performance in a given work situation. Keeping this in view, the investigation entitled , "A study on job satisfaction of teachers" of Gujarat Agricultural University , Anand Campus, Anand was undertaken. Objectives of the study :- 1. To study the personal, socio-economic and psychological characteristics of teachers of G.A.U., Anand Campus. 2. To study the extent of job satisfaction of teachers of G.A.U., Anand Campus. 3. To study the significant differences in the job satisfaction between teachers of different faculties and between the teachers of different categories. 4. To study the relationship of personal, socio-economic, psychological characteristics and extent of, job satisfaction of teachers of G.A.U., Anand Campus. 5. To identify the problems faced by the teachers of G.A.U., Anand Campus and to elicit solutions for their effective functioning. Research Methodology :- The present study was carried out in Anand Campus of Gujarat Agricultural University. The three colleges which represent the three faculties in Anand Campus namely, College of Agriculture, Veterinary College and Dairy Science College were purposively selected. All the teachers who were involved either at graduate or post-graduate teaching with a minimum of three years or more continuous teaching, research and extension experience were treated as respondents. Therefore, the sample consisted of 21 Professors, 51 Associate Professors and 73 Assistant Professors representing three faculties . The total teachers considered as the sample for the study were 145. "The job satisfaction" of teachers of G.A.U., Anand Campus was measured with the help of a teacher made scale developed on the basis of principles of Likert method which was treated as dependent variable. Personal, psychological and situational variables were studied and presented in terms of frequencies and percentages. Problems faced by the teachers were also studied and presented in terms of frequencies and percentages. Scoring method was used wherever necessary. Per testing the significance of differences between different faculties and between different categories of teachers Kruskal-wallis (H-test) test and 't' test were used. Per testing the relationship , the chi-square (X2 ) test was used. The data collected through questionnaire by personal contact of the investigator to the respondents. The data collected were tabulated, organised, analysed and presented in a way that it may give proper representation and answers to the specific objectives of the study. Major findings :- 1. Majority (56.55 percent) of the teachers belonged to the middle age group and 51.72 percent of the teachers had their qualification as Doctorate, 2. 70.34 percent, 66.21 percent and 58.52 percent of the teachers had medium experience in teaching, research and total experience, respectively. whereas 71.03 percent of the teachers had low experience in extension. 3. Majority (77.24 percent) of the teachers received low training . 4. Majority (67.59 percent) of the teachers had their salaries medium. 5. Majority (61.48 percent) of the teachers had average attitude towards teaching. 6. Majority (53.10 per cent) of the teachers had average work load. 7. Majority (69.97 percent) of the teachers expressed that facilities available in the departments were average. 8. Majority (56.21 per cent) of the teachers had medium achievement motivation. 9. Majority (68.28 percent) of the teachers had medium level of present aspiration. 10. Majority (72.42 percent) of the teachers had medium level of future aspiration. 11. Majority (59.31 percent) of the teachers had medium opportunities for professional development. 12. Majority (65.52 per cent) of the teachers were found satisfied with their jobs. 13. ICruskal-v/allis test value (H = 0.08) indicated that there was no significant difference in the mean job satisfaction scores of teachers working in different faculties of G.A.U., Anand Campus, 14. Kruskal-Wallis test value (H = 6.80) indicated that the significant difference is found in the mean job satisfaction scores between Professors-Associate Professors and Professors-Assistant Professors. 15. It was revealed that the characteristics lite attitude towards teaching, facilities available and opportunities for professional development were found significantly related with the job satisfaction of teachers of (G.A.U., Anand Campus. 16. The main problems in job satisfaction of teachers were administrative staff delay the paper work, lack of ministerial and technical assistance, centralization of powers, lack of powers to teachers to tackle the in disciplined students, no job consistency due to frequent transfers etc . , no criteria for promotion and appointments, less weight age to experience, merit etc ., poor training facilities , inadequate laboratory facilities , frequent changes in rules, lack of evaluation of teacher work, lack of teaching equipments, over-burdening the teachers with unnecessary reports.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810042951
dc.keywordsSTUDY, JOB SATISFACTION, TEACHERS OF GUJARAT, AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND CAMPUS, ANANDen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAAU, Ananden_US
dc.research.problemA STUDY ON THE JOB SATISFACTION OF TEACHERS OF GUJARAT AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND CAMPUS, ANANDen_US
dc.subExtension Educationen_US
dc.subjectExtension Education, Agricultureen_US
dc.subjectA STUDYen_US
dc.themeA STUDY ON THE JOB SATISFACTION OF TEACHERSen_US
dc.these.typeM.Scen_US
dc.titleA STUDY ON THE JOB SATISFACTION OF TEACHERS OF GUJARAT AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND CAMPUS, ANANDen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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