PERCEPTION AND OPINION OF TEACHERS TEACHING IN SELECTED SCHOOLS OF VADODARA DISTRICT ON SELECTED DIMENSIONS OF QUALITY OF WORK LIFE
Keywords:
Quality, Work Life, Performance, Discipline, Grievance and WelfareAbstract
The pleasant, progressive and tension free working environment boost up the morale of teachers consequently putting more efforts in providing the quality education and satisfying the needs of each student. And therefore, it becomes inevitable to offer a quality of work life to the teachers. Here, the researcher has attempted the present study to understand the opinions of teachers teaching in schools of Vadodara district on selected dimensions of quality of work life. A structured non-disguised questionnaire containing thirty criteria using five points Liker scale was administered to collect the relevant data from eighty three selected teachers. All collected data were analysed and interpreted by applying one way ANOVA and descriptive statistics. The results reveal that the opinion of teachers of Government, Private and Trust run Schools of Vadodara on Reward dimension of quality of work life are not statistically and significantly different. There is no significance difference between the opinion of teachers of all three types of schools of Vadodara on selected dimensions of Quality of Work Life namely Working Environment, Growth and Development dimension, Welfare Facilities, Performance Appraisal, Discipline and Grievance Mechanism. The school management should put more efforts on motivation and respect of teachers working in the schools irrespective of sections.
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