A study on relationship of workload, rewards and career development towards job satisfaction among academic staff in public institution, Kedah

• Main Author: Nur Nabilah, Kamarun Saman
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: HF5549-5549.5 Personnel Management. Employment
• Online Access: https://etd.uum.edu.my/7266/1/s821912_01.pdf; https://etd.uum.edu.my/7266/2/s821912_02.pdf; https://etd.uum.edu.my/7266/

Job satisfaction is one of the factors that may influence employee productivity and performance in an organization. The purpose of this project paper is to determine the factors that have a high relationship with job satisfaction among academic staff in a Public Institution in Kedah. It is also helpful to determine which factors that have higher significance toward job satisfaction. For the questionnaire, the total items measured are 27 items. All of the collected data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 22. Moreover, 150 questionnaires were distributed to the academic staff. From this research it clearly showed that workload, rewards and career development have a significant relationship with employee job satisfaction. This study also found that rewards have a higher significant relationship with employee job satisfaction. Future studies are recommended on academic staff who are teaching in private institutions in order to measure another factor that has a highest possibility towards employee job satisfaction