JOB SATISFACTION AMONG HIGHER SECONDARY TEACHERS

Job satisfaction is the result of various attitudes, which the employees hold towards their job, towards related factors and towards life in general. Also, the term job satisfaction describes how pleased an employee is with his/her position of employment. There are a variety of factors that could influence an employee's level of job satisfaction; some of these factors include the level of compensation and benefits, the use of equitable promotion systems, the overall working conditions, the style of management and the type of position itself including the tasks involved and the challenges the respective position generates.It refers to general attitude in three areas namely specific job factors, individual adjustment and group relationship outside the job. Likewise, the term has been explained by many psychologists in different ways. In the present study, job satisfaction is defined as a pleasant and positive attitude possessed by a teacher towards his/her job and related factors. The main objective of the present investigation is to study about the job satisfaction of the higher secondary teachers with regard to the background variables namelygender, marital status, age group of the higher secondary teachers, subject handled them, type of school, nature of school and locality of school. Job Satisfaction Inventory developed by Naseema (1993)is used to collect relevant data. The sample consists of 98 higher secondary teachers from 13 higher secondary schools in KumbakonamTaluk, Thanjavur District of Tamil Nadu State. The data are analysedby ‘t' test and ANOVA. The results indicate that there is no significant difference among higher secondary teachers with regard to the background variables namely gender, marital status, age group of the higher secondary teachers, subject handled by them, type of school, nature of school and locality of school.