Impact of Institutional Environment on Teacher Job Satisfaction in Northern Kerala's Self-Financing Colleges
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Teacher job satisfaction is an important factor in essential elements of educational success, most notably the quality of instruction and student outcomes.In recent years, the paradigm has changed and researchers started focusing on the factors that contribute towards job satisfaction according to faculty members, especially in self-financing college tiers, which will be discussed below under various heads for detailed analysis.Such institutions outside government financing tend to have very different organizational dynamics compared to publicly funded ones.This context also can be best realized from the perspective of Northern Kerala, which provides a different social-cultural-educational space dynamism.The institutional environment is broad and could carry from organizational culture, leadership styles, infrastructure, and workload.Each of these contributes to the overall teacher experience and satisfaction.A study done by Singh and Sharma (2023), showed job satisfaction greatly influences whether an individual has a good organizational culture consisting of values, norms, and practices.A culture of support and inclusivity provides faculty with feelings of fit and enhances their motivation and overall job satisfaction.The institutional environment is also a very important element of the leadership styles.We found that transparent, participatory decision-making and recognition of faculty contributions were associated with higher levels of workplace satisfaction; in other words, leadership behaviors affect how happy our employees feel at work.In the education context, Hychka and Tuckey (2022) identified that transformational leadership, which inspires teachers to a higher level of motivation for university purposes strongly associated work satisfaction with education.The infrastructure and resources offered in self-financing colleges form an even bigger part of the equation.Provide teachers with acceptable facilities, a reasonable amount of equipment and materials for the occupations they must carry out satisfactorily, and a human environment within which to work.Studies A B S T R A C TThis research article sets out to study how the institutional environment affects teacher job satisfaction in Northern Kerala Self-financing colleges.The data were analyzed using Pearson Correlation, multiple regressions, a mediated effect test, factor analysis, and ANOVA of 384 teachers.Results show large positive relations between organizational culture with job satisfaction (r = 0.65, p < 0.01) and significant effects of leadership style on job satisfaction (R² = 0.45, F(3, 381) = 45.67,p<0); Dependency Injection Effect = 0.35, Indirect Effect = 0.25, Total effect = 0.60; Sobel p <.01; Professional development opportunities partially mediated the relationship between organizational support and job satisfaction; Principal Components Analysis brought out four distinct factors of job satisfaction, that is, work environment, Compensation, Professional Development and Job Security (KMO = 0.82, Bartlett's Test p < 0.01) table .The results of the ANOVA indicated that job satisfaction for kindy teachers significantly differed according to age (F = 6.25, p < 0.01) and years of experience (F = 5.48, p<.01), but not gender (F = 2.15, p = .12).These results indicated the need for a structured approach at all levels of organizational culture, leadership, professional development and key job satisfaction factors differentially by demographic subgroup to improve teacher job satisfaction.
Authors: Jojibabu Tommandru, Dr. Brijish Kumar Agarwal, Dr. Amit Verma
Institution: Sanskriti University, Mathura
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4401335093