Job Satisfaction Of College Teachers: Article Analysis

Association between Work Motivation and Job Satisfaction of College Teachers is an article that was written in 2012 by Sarita Maharjan. In that article, the author publishes the findings of her study on the relationship between work satisfaction and the job satisfaction of teachers in Nepal. She begins by explaining the background of her study. Maharjan highlights numerous studies that have been conducted by different researchers about the topic. Basing on those past research studies, she asserts that work motivation and job satisfaction are essential in the lives of employees because they are the fundamental reason for working in life (Maharjan, 2012, p. 45). She also explains that although there have been many studies in the …show more content…
To begin with, I believe that the author asked the right question. Indeed, the relationship between job satisfaction and work motivation has been the subject of many studies. Maharjan does not dispute the findings of those studies, and she highlights a number of findings to support her assertion that work satisfaction and job satisfaction form the fundamental reason for working in life (p. 45). The article then goes on to explain how motivation affects behavior in the workplace. After detailing the findings of past studies in regards of the most important motivational factors, the author explains that all of those studies have one thing in common, which is that none has focused on teachers. I believe that the author provides sufficient background to convince the reader about the significance of her study. Once the reader reads the study’s background, it becomes clear that there is need to examine the two variables in the context of college employees. Therefore, there is no doubt that the author is asking the right …show more content…
The author provides a detailed explanation of how each analytical tool was used to come up with the findings. However, the researcher is not clear about how she developed the 12 factors that were included in the questionnaire. In addition, she also fails to explain the logic of some of the recommendations in the article. For instance, I could not understand her recommendation that the administration should launch programs to give prizes to teachers. Nonetheless, I think that the author did a good thing by acknowledging in the limitations section that the analytical tools may have been insufficient (p. 50). Despite these few problems, I believe that the article made a sizeable contribution to knowledge on work motivation and job satisfaction, especially when one considers that the study focused on a group that has not been explored by many researchers in the