Area: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

A STUDY ON JOB SATISFACTON OF THE TEACHERS IN

SRI VENUGOPAL VIDYALAYA MATRICULATION
HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL, CHENNAI
INTRODUCTION
Job satisfaction is simply defined as the affective orientation that an employee has
towards his or her work. In other word, it is an affective reaction to a job that results from
the comparison of perceived outcomes with those that are desired. Shortly, job satisfaction
describes the feelings, attitudes or preferences of individuals regarding work. Furthermore,
it is the degree to which employees enjoy their jobs. And also, it is possible to see a number
of theories developed to understand its nature in literature.
JOB SATISFACTION IN TEACHING PROFESSION
Significantly, job satisfaction and motivation are very essential to the continuing
growth of educational systems around the world and they rank alongside professional
knowledge and skills, center competencies, educational resources as well as strategies, in
genuinely determining educational success and performance. Teachers are arguably the
most important group of professionals for our nation’s future. Therefore, it is distributing
to find that many of today’s teachers are dissatisfied with their jobs. It is crucial that we
determine what increases teacher MOTIVATION.
Teacher motivation is determined by pecuniary and non – pecuniary factors. Pay
levels and other material benefits must be sufficient to meet basic human needs (food,
housing, clothing, transport, healthcare, education and training). However, overall job
satisfaction among teachers is also strongly determined by higher order emotional and
social needs, most notably professional self esteem, job security, interpersonal relations at
work (between management, teachers, pupils ad parents/ communities), opportunities for
career progression, the working environment , the workload and learning outcomes.
Another key related issue is the level of accountability of teachers to their school managers,
pupils, parents and wider community.
RATIONALE FOR THE STUDY
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL
Telugu Mahajana Samajam was started in the year 1954 to propagate Education,
Literature, Art and Culture for the people in the city of Chennai and its suburbs. It is one of
the oldest Telugu Organisations in the city of Chennai. From 1980 this Samajam is running
a co – educational Institution in its own premises at Raja Annamalai Puram in the name of
Sri Venugopal Vidyalaya.
1975 the Government of Tamilnadu wa kind enough to donate a site of about 6
grounds in Raja Annamali Puram and the Government of Andhra Pradesh had given a grant
of Rs. 1 Lakh for the construction of the building complex. M/s. V.A.R.M. Charitable Trust,
made a munificent donation. The school provides education for children from Pre Nursery
to Std.XII. The medium of instruction is English with Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Sanskrit and
French as languages.

SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This project aims on eliciting the job satisfaction of the teachers of Sri Venugopal
Vidyalaya. For this purpose we will choose 20 teachers randomly by random sampling
method.
ENHANCING EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS THROUGH TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Professional development is defined as activities that develop an individual’s skills,
knowledge, expertise and other characteristics as a teacher. So it is important to see
teachers’ professional development as a means of attaining the basic goals of the
educational endeavour.
Job satisfaction is a multi faceted construct. Three central components through to
affect teacher satisfaction including the nature of the work (teaching responsibilities,
working conditions), the context of the job (physical environment), and the consequences
associated with teaching (remuneration, career development) (black- Branch, 1996)
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
 The main aim of the study is to analyze and examine level of job satisfaction among
the various teachers.
 To evaluate the working environment in the school
 To examine satisfaction regarding the salary and other benefits of teachers.
 To identify the extent of job satisfaction in the school teachers and its impact on the
students performance.
 To evaluate other benefits for the teachers to improve their job satisfaction.
 To suggest suitable measures to improve the overall satisfaction of the teachers in
the school.
JOB SATISFACTION – PERFORMANCE LINKAGE
Researchers have had difficulty determining the relationship between job
satisfaction and performance. From the 1930 to the mid-1950s, the views on the job
satisfaction – performance relationship can be summarized in the statement “a happy
worker is a productive worker”.
HYPOTHESES ACCORDING TO RESEARCH ON TEACHERS’ PERFORMANCE
Teachers enter a school with certain expectations about way things work. For
example, they have certain perceptions of how their principal treat them, how much is their
salary, how decisions are being made and how are being resolved.
 Perceived fulfillment of psychological contract would lead to perceived distributive
justice
 Perceived distributive justice would lead to higher levels of organizational
commitment.
 Higher levels of job satisfaction would lead to higher levels of organizational
commitment.
  Higher level of organizational commitment would lead to better performance
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
 The questionnaire from the 15 staff of the school will be followed
 Interview technique to collect data from the teachers
 Group discussion with teachers will also useful to know about the teachers
job satisfaction
 Statistical methods will be adopt for the critical study