Factors influencingteachers job satisfaction in Public primary schools in haramaya distict

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigated the factors that influence the teachers’ level of job satisfaction in public primary school Haramaya District. A descriptive research design used to collect data. The target population of the study was primary school teachers and the samples selected was by using Cluster sampling, i.e. a geographic cluster. Therefore, 15 schools were selected using simple random sampling technique. Two hundred fifty-six (256) questionnaires were administered to teachers of fifteen public primary schools, but 251 questionnaires returned fully and appropriately filled. On the other hand, 5 school directors’, 3 Educational office experts and 1 teachers Association leader participated in the focal group discussion. The study made use of both descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequencies, means, and standard deviation, independent t test, regression and one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to obtain results. The overall factors that influence the teacher’s level of job satisfaction results show moderate level with the average mean score of 2.70 and.97 SD. Except fringe benefit (β = 0.098),T=18.3, P<0.05 and reward (β = 0.082), T=15.7,P<0.05 all factors in the study have strong contribution in predicting level of job satisfaction. Aspects like those that different age at F (3, 247) = 4.63, p =.004, teaching experience at F (3, 247) =.4.56, p =.004 and education level at F (2,248) = 5.03, p= 0.007in the school were found to be statistically significance and sex were not statistically significance at t (1,249) =.09, p =.93. The overall level of job satisfaction of the teachers is low. Low level of salaries, lack of incentive, reward and poor working conditions are the main factor of dissatisfaction of teachers in the public primary schools. It is alsorecommended that the government needs to improve the salary and the working conditions of service of teachers