Measuring Employees’ Commitment through Job Satisfaction: Perception of Public Primary School Teachers

This research investigated the job satisfaction of public primary school teachers in terms of intrinsic aspect of job life, interpersonal relations, attitude of the management, physical facilities, working conditions, and benefits/incentives as an indicator of their job commitment. Through a multi stage sampling, 258 public primary school teachers were selected to seek their opinion through an adapted version of job satisfaction scale (JSS). Both descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to calculate and compare the level of job satisfaction and determine the level of job commitment. Teachers have shown their highest level of job satisfaction over intrinsic aspect of job life followed by the interpersonal relations, attitude of the management, physical facilities, and working conditions and placed benefits/incentives at lowest level. The overall level of job satisfaction of teachers was at a high to very high level that speaks of their strong job commitment and their intention to continue their current. Increasing the benefits/incentives and improving physical facilities at schools were the major recommendations.