Examining Challenges Encountered in Promoting Teacher Job Satisfaction in Secondary Schools of Kyenjojo District Western Uganda

Abstract

Job satisfaction can be understood as a collection of attitudes, feelings that workers have about their job. The objective of this study was identifying challenges faced in promoting teacher job satisfaction in secondary schools of Kyenjojo District Western Uganda.  The Study was descriptive in nature and copies of a questionnaire were used to collect data. The data were collected  from which the sample was drawn for the study, consisted of thirty (30) teachers in public and fifty (50) teachers in private secondary school, plus (8) principals in both public and private Secondary Schools of Kyenjojo District. The findings were Job satisfaction is a hard factor to determine by managers in education the findings were drawn after the descriptive and inferential analysis, Means, Standard Deviation and, were run to test the hypotheses. Generally teachers were less satisfied with advancement, compensation, supervision, human-relation, and working conditions.

Keywords: Job satisfaction, Attitude, Public schools, working conditions