Proceedings of the 3rd UPI International Conference on Technical and Vocational Education and Training

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

Authors
Eka Daryanto, Syaiful Sagala, M. Badiran
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Eka Daryanto
Available Online February 2015.
DOI
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd UPI International Conference on Technical and Vocational Education and Training
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
February 2015
ISBN
10.2991/ictvet-14.2015.14
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/ictvet-14.2015.14How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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