Nowadays, Education has changed and developed fundamentally due to cultural, social and political changes. Education is under intense scrutiny by public and private interests who question the systems ability to fulfill its goals of teaching basic skills, instilling values, preventing dropouts, and producing a productive workforce. Such an incredible responsibility requires high committed to fulfilling the high expectations .Nurturing and educating the new generation have assigned to educational systems. Today, educational administration means: leadership, directing, reform and change. Therefore, achievement to high level goal of education in each society, demand renovation and reorganization and new thinking in management of educational systems (Allahabad, 2004). Educational Administration either in supervision and monitoring of financial and official affairs, in education or others that involving directly with development and implementation of educational program , have responsibility and tasks in achievement of essential objectives of educational administration as named facilitating teaching-learning process.
Schools must give more attention to teacher job satisfaction because it may promote efficiency and staff satisfaction. One of the important factors in improvement of psychological and spiritual energy for staff in the organization is promotion of job satisfaction in teachers. In fact, job satisfaction is a kind of emotional and affective coping with job and its conditions which it consists of two components: cognitive and behavioral. The cognitive aspect is indicator for staff believes about their job conditions and behavioral aspect means individuals trends to their job. Cognitive aspect has more validity than other behavioral aspects due to further relationship with individuals' attitudes. A successful education system is dependent upon a high quality teaching staff. In order to develop this high quality teaching staff, one must look at factors associated with teacher quality and retention. One of these factors is teacher job satisfaction. Job satisfaction can be defined as an overall feeling about ones job or career in terms of specifies, i.e. compensation, autonomy, coworkers; administration. Job satisfaction has been studied for many years. Happock (1935) was one of the first researchers to study job satisfaction. He found that workers were more satisfied with a supervisor who was understanding and helpful (as in cited, Bass, 1990). Frederick Herzberg (1959), psychologist and researcher studied job satisfaction because he believed higher satisfaction led to higher productivity, decreased absenteeism, and better working relations. He found that positive feeling about work, a sense of personal worth, and a sense of personal fulfillment were related to achievement and responsibility (Wetherell,2002).
The employees of an organization take certain roles in order to accomplish tasks, roles that are prescribed by “job descriptions, procedures, routines, protocols, or rules (Mintzberg, 1979, cited in Bolman & Deal, 2008, p. 52). As the principal of Al-Furqan academy claims, all the employees in the organization have clear, well-defined job descriptions (Principal, 2016). The staff working in this school can be divided in five categories that follow Mintzberg’s five-sector logo (cited in Bolman & Deal, 2008, p. 78). The teachers in Al-Furqan academy represent the operating core. These are those people, who essentially provide services or create products for customers. In the case of the school, teaching is a service that is provided by teachers. Teaching is a core process of an educational institution, performed by the operating core of an organization – teachers. Above the operating core are located an organization’s administrators and managers, who form the administrative component. These people supervise the work of the operating core, monitor and coordinate them. In our case, the principal represents this component. At the top of the structure, in the strategic apex are situated senior managers. They determine the mission and design of an organization and monitor changes in the environment. In Al-Furqan academy, the school board represents the apex. The Mintzberg’s structure houses two
Some of the things that companies could do to improve job satisfaction for example, would be to identify when an employee is bored on the job, address it, obtain feedback from the employee for ideas to make their job more interesting and challenging. This would allow a leader to assist this individual in designing different ways to perform duties or depending on individual’s future career goals and performance level, may need more responsibility or promotion in order for the employee to maintain job satisfaction and retention with t...
Based off of the gratification an individual contains towards their work, job satisfaction is a key. The productivity could either be positive or negative, while the relationship between the productivity and satisfaction may not be consistent. There are multiple internal and external factors in job satisfaction that can impact the behavior of an employee and engagement over time. The way the worker’s attitude concerning their field affects the performance they perform on a daily basis. One who is satisfied with the job they do, succeeds at what they do.
In regards to school finance, the ultimate goal of school administrators is to provide all students with the most cost effective, comprehensive education that meets all federal, state, and local requirements and that reflects the values and beliefs within the community. This means that it is an expectation for schools to equip all students equally with the best possible educational opportunities that a community is willing to furnish. However, to accomplish this, school administrators must be able to sustain school programs throughout various economic periods.
The problem of job dissatisfaction is a global workplace issue. Although Americans are happier in their jobs, satisfaction in the United States is declining due to downsizing and overburdening. (Robbins & Judge, 2009). Before outlining job dissatisfaction a definition of job satisfaction is needed. Job satisfaction is “[an] individuals’
This present study will focus on the relationship of job satisfaction, self-esteem and stress among organizational employees. Job satisfaction is an attitudinal variable reflecting an employee’s overall feeling toward the profession of an individual. According to Locke (1969) job satisfaction has been defined as pleasing emotional state that results from the assessment of one's job or experiences of an individual’s job. Job satisfaction is an emotional state related to an individual’s work conditions and culture of an organization. In other words, job satisfaction can also be defined as an individual’s impression about job in terms of specific aspects of the job that includes work, pay promotion, co-workers and job in general. According to Robinson (2006) Employee satisfaction is thoroughly related to job satisfaction and affects the intention to leave or stay with the organization. According many different researches, employee job satisfaction is vital to face the vigorous and ever-increasing challenges of satisfying productivity of the organization by keeping their employees constantly involved and encouraged. Hapak (1935) defined job satisfaction as relation to psychological, physiological and social factors. In other words, it is necessary for an individual to be satisfied physically, psychologically and socially to attain job satisfaction. Job satisfaction is one of the most important aspects of an individual’s job or work.
Job satisfaction is a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job or job experiences. It has been treated both as a general attitude and satisfaction with five specific dimensions of the job: pay, the work itself, promotion opportunities, supervision, and coworkers. Challenging work, valued rewards, opportunities for advancement, competent supervision, and supportive coworkers are dimensions of the job that can lead to satisfaction (Nelson & Quick, 2013, pg. 58-59).
Satisfied employees are productive employees in the organization. There are many variables contributing to the satisfaction of the employees such as wages and salaries, Job security, recognition, work schedule, benefits etc. The presence of quality of worklife factors in the organization leads to numerous outcomes. The main outcome is job satisfaction . It is referred to as positive aspect of employees towards their job.
Nowadays, employees not only focus on the salary of their jobs. They focus on the chances and trainings to improve themselves in their career. Job satisfaction is one of the most widely used variables in organizational behaviour. It is an employees’ attitudinal response to their organization. The job satisfaction related to job performance of the employees. So the employees’ performance can improve through the reward and benefits to employees to reach their satisfaction. Once they satisfied, they will contribute more in company and bring their passion and creative in their jobs. There are two types of job satisfaction, intrinsic job satisfaction and extrinsic job satisfaction. If the employees consider only the type of work they do or the tasks that make to the job, there is intrinsic job satisfaction. If the employees consider the conditions of work, there is extrinsic job satisfaction. For example, they are considering the salary, co-workers or supervisor.
"Education reform comprises any planned changes in a way a school or school system functions, from teaching methodologies to administrative process" ("Education Reform,2018"). Education has made many phenomenal changes over t. he past 100 years. Through providing more locations, free opportunities, and programs that assist every student, education has become more student approachable then it might have been a century ago. Through the many changes throughout education some methods have been successful and used consecutively and some methods have not left such positive effects on the educational system and have been removed or changed.
Public school education system is important and should be taken very seriously. It is the starting foundation to each and every one of our lives. Our educators, lay down the pathway for education.. In today’s world, teachers play a big role in building America. They are the ones who encourage our children to excel into their greatest self. Without teachers, society would face a drastic downfall. There would not be many professions around. Doctors would be unable to save the lives of our friends and families. There would not be any police officers to protect and serve, nor there be a president to lead this country. The public school education system, as a whole, is something that has been over looked for some time. While other professions are progressing in life, the Public Education System, in general, is staying the same. Teaching is not an easy job. The hours are long, the demands are high, and the working conditions are often challenging .Given the conditions, in which, this profession is carried out, a better financial plan is needed to accommodate for the, unbalanced, priority.
Job satisfaction is a person’s emotional reaction to aspects of works such as pay, supervision, colleagues, working condition, job security, company policies and support, benefits, promotion and advancement or to the work itself (French, 1990). In other words, job satisfaction is an individual’s emotional reaction to a specific job. Falkenburg and Schyns (2007) indicate that job satisfaction can be studied from different approaches. Job satisfaction can be seen as a result of different behaviours or as a cause of behaviour. Moreover, it can be seen as an overall feeling or involving of some aspects of the job and the work situation together contribute to the feeling of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with work (Johansson, 2010).
Education is a very important aspect in the life of a child. The level of success a student has in the classroom is greatly influenced by their teachers. Students, as well as their parents, depend on the teachers to guide them through their education. But who guides a teacher to perform successfully in the classroom? Principals and teachers play an important role in schools. A good relationship among school leaders and teachers is necessary and play an important role in making improvements in the school. Leadership refers to the “process in which one person successfully exerts influence over others to reach desired objectives”. (Okoji, 2015) Good leadership involves honesty, vision, confidence and commitment. It is the ability to inspire a
In schools everyday are many people influencing and taking the important role in education and supervision. In these roles are collaborating, teachers, principal, students, and educational supervisors, all these are the main basics of this process (Annan & Ryba, 2013). In an immediate setting, with a more encompass culture is guide by educators, principals, and other staff that supports the student’s success in a daily basis. In any school the culture is really important, but could be hard to establish and maintain (Moccozet, et al., 2009). In establishing a successful school it is pertain that all the staff have the knowledge about the different styles while leading, the main three are congenial, collegial, and conventional (Glickman, et al., 2010). Every school is classify by the leadership style and the decisions that are made, the instruction, the interactions with the stakeholders, or how the administration is done. Furthermore, will be analyze the supervision styles, the culture and the platform that will be follow.
In conclusion, the of motivation factors have a strong influence on job satisfaction resulting in any positive feelings that accompany human, who is trying to keep this state as long as possible, which leads to further efforts.