A Comparative Study of Job Satisfaction among Government and Private Secondary School Teachers

Job satisfaction is a person's internal attitude towards their position or job at work. It is the effect or result of productivity and accomplishment at work. Declining work implementation, attendance, and self-esteem are signs of low satisfaction. An individual’s job satisfaction in his work place may be defined as a common attitude towards his work. It is a connected of state of mind regarding numerous parts of a work. The technique is applied to identify the aspects of a work that make people happy or unhappy. In this study, the main objective is to study the job satisfaction in government and private secondary school teachers and also to make a comparison study on satisfaction level of male and female teachers in both the schools. The Bodoland Territorial Region of Assam was the area of study for the research purpose. Job Satisfaction Scale which is developed by Meera Dixit was used for the study to evaluate Job Satisfaction of both Government and Private secondary school teachers. It had fifty-two items total, covering all eight elements of secondary school teachers' job satisfaction. The survey comes to the conclusion that secondary school teachers in government schools are more satisfied with their jobs than teachers of private schools. It also discovered that male and female secondary school teachers did not show any significant difference in job satisfaction.