A Study of Job Satisfaction and Performance of Colleges in Latur District (PDF)

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2019 in the subject Leadership and Human Resource Management - Employee Motivation, grade: A, , course: Ph.D., language: English, abstract: The noblest profession in the world is Teacher. Today, many persons are found engaged in business concerns and perform their assigned jobs. Why they involve in the jobs? Off course to earn the money! Why money is to be earned? Money is to be earned to live the happy life. It means job and money are not ends but just means to accomplish the end i.e. happy life. It means the job or work is expected to contribute in their happy life and should become a prime source of their happiness and satisfaction. What is satisfaction? It can be described as; "state of pleasant feelings or perceptions is satisfaction". If the job itself becomes cause to satisfaction, then this may be termed as job satisfaction.

Basically 'satisfaction' is a relative concept and varies from person to person. As it is cognitive phenomenon and it cannot be generalized in relation to all persons with any prescribed assumptions. Therefore, the objects of satisfaction differ from person to person. One more core element in satisfaction is, 'it may not be in the external objects but depends upon personality traits'. One object may provide satisfaction to a particular person but the same object may not. Many times extremely opposite feeling can be perceived. Hence, This research have some unique objectives like : To understand different practices applied and services provided to HR and to know the extent of satisfaction in staff& its impact on their performance and to analyze growth and development of the staff on the basis of practices implemented by the college. This research concludes that Job satisfaction among teachers is ultimately impacting on student's growth and development because a satisfied teacher can provide fruitful knowledge to the students. This study concludes that for accomplishment of institutional objective, there is need of satisfied workforce. Therefore, job satisfaction of teacher is the urge of the time. Significantly, job satisfaction and performance is very important to the continuing progress of educational institutes.