THE EFFECTS OF PERSONAL DETERMINANTS ON JOB SATISFACTION OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES' ACADEMICIANS IN PAKISTAN

Abstract

Job satisfaction has always a concern of an employee and employer. Therefore,
investigating its determinants is of value for the both. This study addresses this very
important issue among public and private universities academicians in Pakistan. This is
a survey research carried on teaching staffs working in different public and private
sector universities of Pakistan. Questionnaires were administered to a list of 79 focal
persons, who further distributed the subject questionnaire among 600 faculty members,
selected from Higher Education Commission (HEC) recognized universities. A total of
410 responses received. Data has been analyzed using SPSS. Results demonstrated that
there is a positive impact of independent variables on the dependent variable among the
subject population. However, the level of personal determinants of job satisfaction
differs from variable to variable. The survey concluded with the facts that academicians
were generally satisfied with their current job condition, environment in Pakistani
public and private universities. The research has both theoretical and practical
implications. Theoretically the results would help in enriching the current body of
knowledge on job satisfaction among academicians in developing countries. While
practically, these results would provide guidelines to policy makers to better understand
and critically look into these relationships for positive improvements to promote
positive employee attitudes and behaviors. The findings can be generalized to other
settings keeping all other things constant. Teaching at the university level is a highly
honorable career and academicians are always boons to their societies where they are
working. However, the extant literature shows that universities academicians' job
satisfaction is under-researched area in terms of organizational and personal
determinants particularly in the public & private sector institutions in Pakistan. So, the
recent survey can contribute to address that gap. The research has all the limitations of a
survey research. So this survey is limited to the public & private universities sector only.
Thus, the results can be generalized to other industrial sectors to a restricted limit.