An Assessment on Vocational School Teachers’ Job Satisfaction in Province of North Sumatera

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10.2991/ictvet-14.2015.14How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Individual characteristics, job characteristics, job satisfaction, vocational school teacher’s

Abstract

The job satisfaction is reflected by the affective reaction of an individual on to his/her work related factors. This study explores the relationship between individual characteristics, job characteristics with job satisfaction of teachers in vocational schools at the Province of North Sumatera, Indonesia. The sample size of this study was obtained using the proportional random sampling which further resulting a total number of 166 teachers who were found having the expected qualification in Mechanical Engineering subject. For the purpose of data collection, a questionnaire was developed as the main instrument of this study and distributed to all samples. All of items questioned within the instruments were constructed relevant to research objectives, research questions, and literature review references. The research questionnaires consist of number of Likert-scaled queries following the four variables within this study: individual characteristics, job characteristics and job satisfaction. To test the hypotheses, this study used a path analysis method. The hypotheses tests based on the path analysis on the research model revealed that individual characteristics and job characteristics. The findings from this study also underlines the importance on minimizing the gap among personal characteristics and improving the clarity of job assigned relevant to teachers’ competencies through proper and continuous career development

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Eka Daryanto
AU  - Syaiful Sagala
AU  - M. Badiran
PY  - 2015/02
DA  - 2015/02
TI  - An Assessment on Vocational School Teachers’ Job Satisfaction in Province of North Sumatera
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd UPI International Conference on Technical and Vocational Education and Training
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 58
EP  - 61
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ictvet-14.2015.14
DO  - 10.2991/ictvet-14.2015.14
ID  - Daryanto2015/02
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