Vol: 4, Issue: 3 2014

Page: 1-13

A Study About Job Satisfaction of Private Professional Colleges' Employees of Kurukshetra District, Haryana

Anil Kumar

Received Date: 2014-05-06

Accepted Date: 2014-06-03

Published Date: 2014-07-02

Performance of an individual depends on job satisfaction. So job satisfaction plays a major role in the work performance of individual. The purpose of our study is to find out the level of job satisfaction and the factors that contribute to the low and high satisfaction among private professional colleges’ employees. The researchers choose a segments of Kurukshetra University Kurukshtra in Haryana State for study as the universe is very vast and wide. The term ‘job satisfaction’ refers to the general attitude of an employee towards his/ her job. It is a relative term and varies from person to person. The study focuses on the relationship between the profile of the employees of select colleges of Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra and their overall attitude towards their jobs. The searcher used a number of statistical tools and tests like- Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) Measure of sampling, Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity, Factor analysis, Eign value, Chi-square test .After using all above told tests then gives conclusion for each test.

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