International Journal of Management, IT and Engineering
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 9

Investigating Job Satisfaction Level of Faculty Members in Public Sector Engineering Universities of Sindh, Pakistan

  • Author:
  • Ameer Ali Shahani, Anwaruddin Tanwari, Hussain Bux Marri
  • Total Page Count: 12
  • Page Number: 1 to 12

* Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro-76062-Sindh, Pakistan

Online published on 27 February, 2017.

Abstract

This study attempts to analyze the level of job satisfaction among the faculty members on the basis of identifying key factors such as compensation, research and technology, management style, recognition, working environment, in-service teaching training and compares the level of job satisfaction of male and female faculty members in public sector engineering universities of Sindh-Pakistan. After reviewing literature authors have segregate the factors and designed questionnaire. Preliminary survey was conducted in this survey; respondents were asked about the validation of the questionnaire and receivedfeedback regarding improvement and redesign of the questionnaire. After that questionnaire was floated for conducting the main survey. The four universities were selected and 375 sample sizes targeted in this research. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 12.0. It is concluded that all the factors were significant and have a positive influence on level of job satisfaction. However, female faculty members were more comfortable in their job as compared to male. This research is beneficial for faculty members of the universitiesand even for management and decision makers.

Keywords

Job satisfaction, Faculty members, Public sector engineering universities, Empirical data analysis, Sindh, Pakistan