Research Article | Open Access
WORK MOTIVATION AND JOB SATISFACTION OF OUTSTATION POSTED SCHOOL TEACHERS
Mrs. Priyanka Sharma and Dr. KC Barmola
Pages: 675-679
Abstract
There could be various aspects of teachers’ life that matter to them in their personal and professional life. Work
motivation and Job Satisfaction of Outstation Posted school teachers is the most common factor which directly
affects their work and students. Under the title of this paper “Work motivation and Job Satisfaction of Outstation
Posted School Teachers”,the level of associationof work motivation and job satisfactionwith outstation-posted
schoolteachers A sample of 256 government schoolteachershave been taken from Rajasthan, India by purposive
sampling technique. The work motivation Questionnaire by Agarwal (2012) and the Job Satisfaction Scale by Singh
(1999)have been used to collect the data. The Chi-square test was applied in this research to analyse the level of
association. Findings showa high level of association between work motivation(χ2=9.41, p<.05) and job
satisfaction(χ2=10.40, p<.01)with outstation-posted teachers. It may be said that the level of work motivation and
job satisfaction may not get influenced much even if schoolteachers are posted out of their hometown.
Keywords
Job satisfaction, Work motivation, Outstation posted teachers, Schoolteachers, Hometown