Job Satisfaction Among Academics Staff In Mukah Sarawak

摘要

Satisfaction at the workplace is naturally associated with working conditions. In response to the above subject matter particularly on teachers, working conditions are often associated with the following factors, and have been discussed in turn; Employment status and job security, workload, staff support and teaching aids, salaries and non-monetary rewards, opportunities for professional development, quality of facilities and material condition, flexibility to take temporary leaves, social security benefits, health and safety, opportunity for collaboration and decision-making. All the changes that have affected higher education systems in the last three decades around the world have inevitably impacted the working and living conditions of academicians. This research study was carried out to: (1) measure levels of job satisfaction among academic staff and every factor included such as promotion, work condition, workload and recognition (2) examine the relationship between factors on job satisfaction among the academic staff in different institutions and (3) prepare recommendation to increase job satisfaction among the academic staff in education institution. This finding was achieved through the use of questionnaires distributed among 78 academic respondent's working in UiTM Mukah, PPKS, GiatMara and a school in Mukah town. The survey data was analysed using SPSS 21 (statistical package for social sciences) comprises of reliability test, descriptive statistic and correlations analysis. Out of 78 samples, the majority of our respondents were male (51.3%) while the rest of another 38 or (48.7%) were female, and 48 (61.5%) respondent were married and the other 30 (38.5%) respondents were still single. Result from the descriptive analysis shows a moderately high level of job satisfaction among academic staff in Mukah Sarawak. Promotion was ranked as the highest and workload was ranked as the lowest of the examined items. There are significant relationship between factors including promotion, working condition, workload and recognition. Workload does not significantly correlates with job satisfaction among the academician at all. Hence the result from this study we can see the quality of education system use in that particular institution, and matters like whether the staffs has the interest to be an educator and to know about career opportunities as educator by considering the factor studied.