School Teachers Perception towards Pay satisfaction and Personal Characteristics:  A Study of Northern Province, Sri Lanka

Achchuthan

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Achchuthan

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pay satisfaction, personal characteristics, northern province, sri lanka and school teachers

Abstract

The primary aim of the study is to find out the significant mean difference in pay satisfaction among personal characteristics of the school teachers as gender, age, family size, subjects for teaching, educational qualification, work place and work experience. Further, secondary objective is to suggest the government authoritative bodies to enhance pay satisfaction, which will give the long term value to the Northern Province, Sri Lanka in terms of social, economical and political development. The study employs independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA (f-test) to test the operational hypotheses. The survey method used in this study is a questionnaire and a total of 360 usable responses were obtained using simple random sampling technique. Findings revealed that, there is a significant mean difference in pay satisfaction among family size, subjects for teaching, educational qualification and working experience.

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School Teachers Perception towards Pay satisfaction and Personal Characteristics: A Study of Northern Province, Sri Lanka. (2014). Global Journal of Management and Business Research, 14(7), 65-77. https://journalofbusiness.org/index.php/GJMBR/article/view/

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Author Biography

Achchuthan

I am a research-focused academic and more interested in researching in the area of consumer behaviour and insights. My career objective is to ensure my research supports policymakers and marketers in enhancing consumers’ preferences towards sustainable consumption as well as contribute to society to improve social wellbeing. I believe both the practical and theoretical impact of my research is widespread. I have published articles in Management journals, which were indexed in Web of Science or Scopus and endorsed by COPE or DOAJ.

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