A Scholarly Study on the role of growth opportunities in Faculty Job Satisfaction leading To the Development of Academic Institution
Keywords:
Growth opportunities, organisational support, job satisfaction, promotion policies, retentionAbstract
Job satisfaction is the key to success for an individual and the academic institution on a larger front. Job satisfaction refers “to an overall affective orientation on the part of individuals toward work roles which they are presently occupying” (Kalleberg 1977, 126). An academic institution can increase faculty job satisfaction by providing growth opportunities to the faculty members on regular interval.
An opportunity that enables an indivigual to grow potentially and significantly is called growth opportunity. Opportunities for employee growth and development include, Continuing education courses, Tuition reimbursement, Career development or counselling services, Skills training provided in-house or through outside training centres, Opportunities for promotion and internal career advancement.
This paper will be discussing on various independent factors like promotion policies, better pay, opportunities for research, support in publishing of research paper and attending conference, better HRD policies, and special leave for higher studies or refresher courses. The above factors can definitely improve the satisfaction of faculty members and enrich the work environment of an academic institution. Satisfaction improves with symbolic recognition such as award nominations. Growth opportunities can lead to retention as well.
The result of the above paper will conclude that if the organizational support becomes more acceptable, the level of job satisfaction for university teachers may increase.This study comes with some independent and few dependent variables that are having an influential role on job satisfaction of faculty members. Further research can be conducted considering more independent variables and its impact on other dependent variable.
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