AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF-ACTUALIZATION AND JOB SATISFACTION OF ACADEMIC LEADERS

Background: Job Satisfiers of academic people including academic leaders is bit different from the satisfiers of employees. According to past researches the common factors determining the employee's Job Satisfaction are working environment, financial benefits, relationship with peer and superior (Gopinath,2016). But this is different in case of academic leaders, they need a kind of psychological satisfaction (Gopinath, 2020 a) and that would be the intrinsic factor determining the overall satisfaction. So when the academic institutions aim for their faculties Job Satisfaction, first they have to focus on the Academic Leader's Self-Actualization. Objective: This paper is an attempt to identify the factorial influence of Self Actualization on Job Satisfaction of academic leaders. Methodology: The researcher used descriptive research design and collected 187 samples using continent stratified random sampling technique. Structural Equation Modeling was used to analyze the samples. Findings and Conclusion: The researcher found significant and prominent relationship between various dimensions of Self-Actualization and Job Satisfaction. It was concluded that the Job Satisfaction of academic leaders can be enhanced by giving training on Self-Actualization.