A study on Impact of Job Characteristics on Key Attitudes of Faculty Members in Professional Educational Institutes.

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of job characteristics on key attitudes (job satisfaction and organisational commitment) of faculty member’s in professional educational institutes in Delhi region. Also the study explored the satisfaction level and commitment level of faculty with different dimensions of their job. A survey  of 251 faculty members working in private professional educational institutes was conducted. Several analytical techniques were used such as Pearson correlation, Hierarchical regression to evaluate the relationship among variables. The findings of the study indicated that job characteristics promotional opportunities, task variety, pay satisfaction and professional development resulted into high affective commitment while participation in decision making was related with normative commitment. Promotional opportunity, pay and participation were highly related with job satisfaction of the faculty members.