Childcare Staff Commitment

The purpose of this research study was to investigate early childcare staff job satisfaction in order to see if there was a relationship between individual wages and job satisfaction, job commitment, and program quality. In Chapter II researcher reviewed various themes pertaining to early childcare staff job satisfaction. In chapter III the researcher delineated the research process that derived results and conclusions based on survey data. The chapter discussed the overall study design, data collection, and data analysis activities used to collect data to answer research questions. The chapter furthermore highlighted the limitations of this study. The research questions that were answered are listed below:

1. What is the relationship between

Survey research was used to gather information about people’s beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and demographic composition. Survey data was collected by asking participants from a population a set of questions, which could be administered in a questionnaire that was mailed, emailed, or in an interview over the phone or in person (Leedy & Ormrod, 2013). In a sample survey researcher attempted to infer information about a population based on a representative sample drawn from that population. To generalize the findings from a sample to a population, the sample should accurately represent the population (Salkind, 2012). Robson (2011) stated that the details of the design should be fully pre-specified before the beginning of data collection. Gay et al. (2011) informed that correlational research involved data collection to determine relationship existence between two or more quantifiable

Because the researcher was interested to collect perceived thoughts and opinion about early childcare staffs’ job satisfaction, survey was the most applicable way of collecting data for the study. A survey instrument called Early Childhood Job Satisfaction Survey ECJSS (Bloom, 2010) and an additional Supplementary Information Sheet (SIS) were used to collect quantitative data. The ECJSS was a cross sectional survey that was utilized to collect data about early childcare staff opinions on job satisfaction and job commitment. SIS was an additional information sheet that gathered data about childcare staff on individual wage and program quality. The additional sheet included other demographic items about childcare staff. This survey had established reliability and validity listed in the manual (Bloom,