Impact of demographic factors on extrinsic job satisfaction: special reference to government school teachers of Kalmunai educational zone

Abstract

The purpose of this research study is to investigate the extrinsic job satisfaction hygiene factors such as job security, compensation, social status, school policies & practices and working conditions of government school teachers working at Kalmunai zone, Ampara district in Sri Lanka. This research study compares the extrinsic job satisfaction of teachers with demographic factors such as Gender, Ethnicity, Age, Civil Status, Educational Qualifications and Years of Experience. 12 government schools were selected randomly from Kalmunai educational zone. In order to collect required data for this study, the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) standard method was used as a tool. The research study comprised 64 government schools in Kalmunai zone in Ampara district in Sri Lanka. Twelve Schools were randomly selected as sample for this research study. There are 635 government school teachers of which 271 males and 364 female teachers working in the selected schools. 100% response rate was yielded. Appropriate statistical analysis such as Reliability Analysis, Principal component Analysis, t-test and One-way ANOVA were used to analyze the data. This research study found that there are no significant differences existed in the extrinsic satisfaction between male & female, Muslim & Tamil and married & unmarried. Furthermore, age and years of experiences didn’t explore the extrinsic satisfaction difference in teachers whereas, the teachers’ educational qualifications impact on extrinsic job satisfactions.