AN EVALUATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE THE JOB SATISFACTION OF BUSINESS STUDIES TEACHERS IN GOMBE STATE
AN EVALUATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE THE JOB SATISFACTION OF BUSINESS STUDIES TEACHERS IN GOMBE STATE
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2007-12
Authors
AWAK, SARIKI RHODA.
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ABSTRACT
This study was designed to measure the influence of organizational factors
on job satisfaction of business studies teachers in Gombe State. The study also
measured the differences existing among business studies teachers on their job
satisfaction based on gender, marital status, age, teaching experience and
qualification, using the scale of job satisfaction developed by Hopock. In order to
achieve the purpose of the study, a survey research design was adopted. The
population of the study consisted of all business studies teachers in Gombe State
secondary schools, spread across the 52 government secondary schools. Cluster
sampling was adopted, that is questionnaires were administered to all the business
studies teachers. The items of this study instrument were adopted from items used
by Couger/Zawaki and modified in Nigeria by Sawalu (1987). The instrument
was constructed to cover the five research questions and five null hypotheses and
was divided into section A and B. Section A consisted of the demographic factors
of respondents, and section B consisted of items on job satisfaction. All the
hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Z-test was used in testing
hypotheses 1, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Z-test used in testing hypothesis
2, Pearson product moment correlation used in testing hypotheses 3 and 4, while
Spearman rank (rho) correlation was used in testing hypothesis 5. The result of
the finding revealed that the perceived level of job satisfaction among business
studies teachers in Gombe State was significantly low. In other words, it did not
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significantly influence the selected variables, like age, gender, marital status, years
of experience in Gombe State, Government secondary Schools. On the basis of
the conclusion the researcher recommended among others, loans allowances,
decent accommodations, medical facilities, etc., be provided for business studies
teachers so as to reduce their movement to other fields. Finally, based on the
limitation of the study, the researcher suggested that further research be conducted
on impact of corporate bodies in the development of business education
programme in secondary schools.
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DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA
Keywords
EVALUATION,, ORGANIZATIONAL,, FACTORS,, INFLUENCE,, JOB,, SATISFACTION,