Job Satisfaction of Intermediate Level College Teachers

The teaching is one of the prestigious jobs and plays a distinctive role in national development. The objectives of the study were to analyze the intense feeling of college teachers of Dinajpur district concerning the factors of job satisfaction. The study was based on primary and secondary data sources. The primary data were collected through a well-structured questionnaire with 21 items based on five point Likert scale. One open ended questionnaire was given to the respondents. Secondary data were collected from published referred journals. The study was designed on the basis of snowball sampling procedure. The questionnaire were distributed almost all the teachers of four colleges and out of them 49 fill up properly. The data were analyzed by MS-Excel program. Apparently, 70% respondents are satisfied with the behavior of colleagues and section head. Moreover, nearly 50%-70% employees are satisfied with working areas, chance to do work, tasks variations, importance in work, competence of section head, integrity of peers, chance to do something for others and give suggestions, chance to use potentials and work with own style, working conditions, praise of works, and feelings of accomplishment. Besides, teachers are dissatisfied with employment, opportunity in job, own judgment, organizational policy, and pay & salary. The study suggests that the college authority should be very affirmative to the young employees by means of generating creative working environment, freedom in work, and more benefits to enhance their level of job satisfaction.