Motivation Factors Influence Teachers' Job Satisfaction

Abstract

This study aims to describe the impact of various motivation factors on the level of teachers’ job satisfaction. Researchers have used quantitative methods to describe the relationship between motivation factors and the teachers’ overall job satisfaction level. The quantitative study is a non-experimental type, correlational, and conducted with over 700 secondary school teachers from Durrës, Tirana and Elbasan municipalities in Albania. This paper used a structured questionnaire, which contains three sections. The first section includes teachers’ demographic characteristic; in the second section, there are 32 statements (indicators) included in the Job Motivation Questionnaire, which evaluates and measures the teachers’ job motivation level; the third section features 23 indicators in The Job Satisfaction Index, which measures the teachers’ overall job satisfaction level. The findings of this study demonstrate that there is a substantial positive relationship between job motivation and job satisfaction (r=.52, p<0.01). The results of this study showed that external and internal motivation explain 24% of the job pleasure variability where internal motivation turned out to have a higher impact and external motivation a relatively lower one. Results from this study will serve future studies in search of strategies to improve the working conditions in order to have more motivated teachers within the context where they work.

Received: 22 February 2023 / Accepted: 20 April 2023 / Published: 5 May 2023