AN EVALUATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE THE JOB SATISFACTION OF BUSINESS STUDIES TEACHERS

 This study was designed to measure the influence of organizational factors on job satisfaction of business studies teachers in Gombe State. The study also measured the differences existing among business studies teachers on their job satisfaction based on gender, marital status, age, teaching experience and qualification, using the scale of job satisfaction developed by Hopock. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, a survey research design was adopted. The population of the study consisted of all business studies teachers in Gombe State secondary schools, spread across the 52 government secondary schools. Cluster sampling was adopted, that is questionnaires were administered to all the business studies teachers.

The items of this study instrument were adopted from items used by Couger/Zawaki and modified in Nigeria by Sawalu (1987). The instrument was constructed to cover the five research questions and five null hypotheses and was divided into section A and B. Section A consisted of the demographic factors of respondents, and section B consisted of items on job satisfaction. All the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Z-test was used in testing hypotheses 1, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Z-test used in testing hypothesis 2, Pearson product moment correlation used in testing hypotheses 3 and 4, while Spearman rank (rho) correlation was used in testing hypothesis 5. The result of the finding revealed that the perceived level of job satisfaction among business studies teachers in Gombe State was significantly low. In other words, it did not viii significantly influence the selected variables, like age, gender, marital status, years of experience in Gombe State, Government secondary Schools. On the basis of the conclusion the researcher recommended among others, loans allowances, decent accommodations, medical facilities, etc., be provided for business studies teachers so as to reduce their movement to other fields. Finally, based on the limitation of the study, the researcher suggested that further research be conducted on impact of corporate bodies in the development of business education programme in secondary schools.