Job Satisfaction among educators staff in public universities: Case study of UiTM Samarahan Sarawak

Nordin, Jennifah; Yusuf, Nur Afisha; Sadikin, Sarehan; Desa, Zalina Mohd

International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

EISSN: 2313-3724

Print ISSN: 2313-626X

Volume 4, Issue 3 (March 2017), Pages: 73-78

Title: Job Satisfaction among educators staff in public universities: Case study of UiTM Samarahan Sarawak

Author(s): Jennifah Nordin, Nur Afisha Yusuf, Sarehan Sadikin, Zalina Mohd Desa *

Affiliation(s):

Faculty of Administrative Science, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kota Samarahan 94300, Sarawak, Malaysia

https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2017.03.012

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Abstract:

This study main objective was to investigate the relationship between work commitment, work load, work environment, social relationship and remuneration with job satisfaction. While other objectives was to compare job satisfaction based on gender. A few hypotheses has been developed and tested. Out of 385 educators registered, 210 were selected as respondents. Simple random sampling technique was used to collect the data and data was collected within 2 weeks in the month of April 2014. The Pearson correlation test indicates that work commitment, work load, work environment, social relationship and remuneration had significant impact towards job satisfaction. While the result of t-test showed that there was no difference between male and female job satisfaction dealing with any aspect of applied sciences from fundamental sciences to applications in engineering systems and nature are solicited.

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Keywords: Job satisfaction, Educators, Work environment, Work commitment, Social relationship

Article History: Received 4 November 2016, Received in revised form 4 January 2017, Accepted 7 January 2017

Digital Object Identifier:

https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2017.03.012

Citation:

Nordin J, Yusuf NA, Sadikin S, Desa ZM (2017). Job Satisfaction among educators staff in public universities: Case study of UiTM Samarahan Sarawak. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 4(3): 73-78

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