Case Studies Of Job Satisfaction Of Secondary School Teachers

Along with the continuous progress of reforms in the field of elementary and high school education, the issue as to how to activate the initiative of teachers in order to elevate the overall quality of school management catches more and more attention. As a result, to conduct researches on the stimulus in school education management has become a hot topic.The thesis, by using the reference of Motivation-Hygiene Theory formed in the late 1950's by Frederick Herzberg, an American psychologist, perform empirical research on job satisfaction of the contemporary high school teachers.The thesis mainly comprises of two categories-The literature and the empirical research. The literature research focus on the definition of job satisfaction and the research results of the precedent researchers; the introduction and evaluation of Motivation-Hygiene Theory; the status of application of the theory in education management within the country and abroad.In the thesis, job satisfaction refers to a kind of pleasant and positive emotional reaction derived from work, which is mostly the outcome of individual experiences or psychological evaluation of the work done. Frederick Herzberg played an important role in the research of this field.The empirical research begins with the questionnaire on job satisfaction of individuals. The research scope is set to be totally 195 teachers and administration executives (excluding the supporting staff) of two different types of high schools in Shanghai. 182 answer sheets were received which accounts for 93.3% of the total sent out, with 17 invalid sheets. There were 165 sheets were take as valid in result, which accounts for 90.7% of the total. With the statistics analysis of the data obtained, several teachers with representative characteristics were selected for interview. The summary of the interview goes as follows:1.The high schools put more efforts on the improvement of hygiene factors at present.2.Salary, supervision, promotion and education policy have been the 4 main factors which high school teachers feel unsatisfied.3.High school teachers are uncertain about certain motivators at current stage.4.The improvement of inter-personal relationship provides profound stimulation to teachers.Then the analysis was summarized and the conclusion drawn is stated hereafter:1. The overall degree of satisfaction falls into the medium level. The most satisfied factor is the relationship among the colleagues with the least satisfied is the salary.2. Those favorable factors, compared with the division by Mr. Herzberg greatly increased.3. Those negative factors are much less man those of the division made by Mr. Herzberg.4. The job satisfaction of teachers is influenced by both the stimulus and hygiene factors. The dissatisfaction of them is mainly resulted from the hygiene factors. Therefore, the theory of Mr. Herzberg was not fully supported.5. The public senior high school teachers are much more satisfied than the private junior high school teachers.6. The male teachers are more satisfied than the females.7. The young teachers are comparatively less satisfied than the elder. It shows the tendency that the job satisfaction grows with the age.8. Promotion in position and title is of great availability to job satisfaction.9. There is an agreement to a great extent in the view of job satisfaction among the executives and the ordinary teachers.10. Teachers with different levels of degrees vary not much in job satisfaction on the whole, but the teachers of college degrees are more satisfied than those with bachelor or even higher degrees.11 .Married and single teachers share almost same view on the issue.Based on the conclusion hereinabove, several pieces of suggestion are raised:1. To better the offerings and welfare packages to teachers within the reasonable level.2. To establish placatory interpersonal relationship and create harmonious atmosphere in schools.3. To encourage teachers to bring their strong points into...