Authors: Professor Rupanjali Aacharya, Manish kumar
Abstract: The issue of job satisfaction in self-financed teachers has turned to be a burning issue in the Meerut area as the number of fields of institutions operated privately without aid and the nature of employment conditions became diversified. The paper evaluates the degree of job satisfaction and determines organisational and personal factors that affect job satisfaction amongst the self-financed teachers in the Meerut district, Uttar Pradesh. The descriptive survey was employed. Intrinsic (achievement, autonomy, recognition) and extrinsic (pay, job security, workload, appraisal practices, working conditions and professional development) satisfaction was measured in a structured questionnaire, which was validated during the expert review and had pilot test. Data analysis involved the law of descriptive statistics and chosen inferential statistics used to investigate the difference as per gender, age, teaching experiences, qualification, and type of institution. The findings depict that the level of job satisfaction is more or less moderate. Intrinsic factors like teaching, student progress and sense of purpose showed a higher level of satisfaction to the teachers compared to extrinsic factors like adequacy of salary, timely payment, promotion opportunities and long term job security. The support of management as perceived was related to satisfaction in a positive sense, but on the contrary, role overload, lack of inclusion in decision-making processes, and undefined service terms were attributed to dissatisfaction. The paper highlights how institution level intervention of timely and equal remuneration, better contract and rules of service, mentoring and lifelong learning, and participative management must address the motivation and retention drive in the self-financed sector. Future studies can conduct longitudinal following and qualitative interviews together in order to obtain evolving anticipations and situational strains in western Uttar Pradesh. By making such conditions better, it is possible to motivate better quality of instructions, decrease the turnover and contribute to the overall student results.
