Nature of work interest, meaningfulness, enjoyment achievement and advancement or personal growth opportunities. Most of these aspects were identified by researchers from developed countries and just a few from developing countries such as South Africa.
However, some scholars emphasize on just five or six of those facets, nonetheless this study measures teacher job satisfaction using most of the facets stated above.
Other studies have concluded that teacher job satisfaction is clearly related to levels of intrinsic motivators such as the intellectual challenge of teaching and promoting professional scholars emphasize on just five or six of those facets, nonetheless this study measures teacher job satisfaction using most of the facets stated above.
Factors Asscociated With Teachers Job Dissatisfaction
Albanese (2008) associates job dis-satisfaction with: monthly salaries, incapable and unsupportive administrators and lack of collegial relationship with co-workers. Incapable leaders and salary were key factors that influenced job dis-satisfaction (ibid). This implies that teachers’ job dis-satisfaction is associated with leadership or managerial incapability.
Shann (2001), asserted that “teachers were uniformly dissatisfied with their level of participation in decision makingâ€. This implies that denial of opportunities for teachers to participate in decision-making may take dis-satisfied with their job.
Previous researches conducted in Cyprus revealed that the teachers’ job dis-satisfaction was associated with “students†misbehavior and lack of interest, a decline in teachers’ respect and status, power relationships with national authorities and teachers’ “lack of voice in education decision-making processes†(Zemblyas & Papanastasiou, 2006). However, Dinham & Scott (2000) conducted research in the United Kingdom and Australia and they associate teachers’ job dis-satisfaction with extrinsic factors.