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Environmental Factors and Job Satisfaction: A Study on College Teachers of West Bengal

MANTHAN: Journal of Commerce and Management

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Title Environmental Factors and Job Satisfaction: A Study on College Teachers of West Bengal
 
Creator Roy, Suhas; Associate Professor in Economics, Department of Commerce, Bethuadahari College, West Bengal.
Roy, Swapan Kumar; Assistant Professor in Commerce, Department of Commerce, Bethuadahari College, West Bengal
 
Subject Performance based appraisal system (PBAS), Revision of pay and allowance (ROPA), Additional increments due to higher qualification, Career advancement scheme (CAS), Likert’s five point scale.
 
Description Job satisfaction of college teachers are affected by personal factors of the teachers, institutional factors and environmental factors. Environmental factors are other than personal (related with the teacher) or institutional (related with the college and the persons related with the college) factors. These include system variables like government policies, economic conditions of the state and the country, policies of the parental bodies like UGC, MHRD, Higher Educational Council, and affiliating university. In this paper, environmental factors of job satisfaction of college teachers have been considered to examine if they are significant determinants of job satisfaction. These include PBAS, Pay-packet system, ROPA, age of superannuation, transfer policy, increments for higher qualifications, unemployment problem, examination and students ’ union election are expected to have significant contributions on job satisfaction of the college teachers. The results show that teachers’ career related environment factors are significant in determining job satisfaction of college teachers. Similarly, students’ behaviour under certain circumstances is also found to be significant.
 
Publisher Journal Press India
 
Date 2016-11-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.myresearchjournals.com/index.php/MANTHAN/article/view/6597
10.17492/manthan.v3i1.6597
 
Source MANTHAN: Journal of Commerce and Management; Vol 3, No 1 (2016)
2347-4440
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.myresearchjournals.com/index.php/MANTHAN/article/view/6597/5802