A STUDY ON MOTIVATION AMONG TEACHING STAFF OF ACADEMY OF MARITIME EDUCATION AND TRAINING, CHENNAI

The aim of this study was to find out motivation factors among the teaching staff of Academy of Maritime Education and Training. It is generally believed that a teaching staff considered as an engineer of the human soul, plays an important role in society. They are considered pillars of society because they shoulder the responsibility of educating and training students upon whom our future relies. Previous research has revealed that employees of teaching staff who are satisfied with their job are more likely to be creative, innovative and initiate the breakthroughs that can increase their job performance. On the other hand, teaching staffs who is dissatisfied with his or her job may become irritable and tense, which may bring inefficiency and other negative effects to the students' learning process. In this study a structured questionnaire was designed from the review of literature and distributed to 150 teaching staff from the major departments constituting major programs of study. An analysis was performed on 100 usable responses to determine the impact of motivational factors on teaching staff and for the study the convenient sampling technique was used