Understanding teachers’ job satisfaction through work-life balance policies / Farah Shazlin Johari... [et al.]

Work-life balance play an important role in influencing employee’s quality of social and working life together with job satisfaction in the organization. Nowadays, teachers are also included in the context of work-life balance due to academic workload and career issues. In this study, researchers ai...

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Main Authors: Johari, Farah Shazlin, Ruslani, Muhammad Ridzuan, Rasli Samudin, Nor Maslia, Mohd Zolkapli, Nurhafizah, Basirun, Siti Norashikin
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Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Negeri Sembilan 2018
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29850/
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author Johari, Farah Shazlin
Ruslani, Muhammad Ridzuan
Rasli Samudin, Nor Maslia
Mohd Zolkapli, Nurhafizah
Basirun, Siti Norashikin
author_facet Johari, Farah Shazlin
Ruslani, Muhammad Ridzuan
Rasli Samudin, Nor Maslia
Mohd Zolkapli, Nurhafizah
Basirun, Siti Norashikin
author_sort Johari, Farah Shazlin
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description Work-life balance play an important role in influencing employee’s quality of social and working life together with job satisfaction in the organization. Nowadays, teachers are also included in the context of work-life balance due to academic workload and career issues. In this study, researchers aim to explore work-life balance policies that influence teacher’s job satisfaction in selected Malaysia boarding school. Only 56 school teachers were selected to represent as respondents consist of teachers from language, mathematics, science, social science, counselling unit, and vice principals department. The questionnaires were distributed using convenience sampling. The elements of work-life balance policies such as flexibility policies, welfare policies, job design and leave provisions were included in this study to examine potential influence on teacher’s job satisfaction. Based on statistical analysis using SPSS, Pearson Correlation analysis four elements of work-life balance policies indicated positive and significant relationship with job satisfaction, with flexibility policies showed the strongest relationship toward teacher’s job satisfaction. Most of teachers in selected Malaysian boarding school also demonstrated high level of job satisfaction at the workplace.
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spelling uitm-298502020-04-14T04:10:21Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29850/ Understanding teachers’ job satisfaction through work-life balance policies / Farah Shazlin Johari... [et al.] joa Johari, Farah Shazlin Ruslani, Muhammad Ridzuan Rasli Samudin, Nor Maslia Mohd Zolkapli, Nurhafizah Basirun, Siti Norashikin Study and teaching. Research Surveys. Sampling. Statistical survey methodology Social psychology Statistical methods Work-life balance play an important role in influencing employee’s quality of social and working life together with job satisfaction in the organization. Nowadays, teachers are also included in the context of work-life balance due to academic workload and career issues. In this study, researchers aim to explore work-life balance policies that influence teacher’s job satisfaction in selected Malaysia boarding school. Only 56 school teachers were selected to represent as respondents consist of teachers from language, mathematics, science, social science, counselling unit, and vice principals department. The questionnaires were distributed using convenience sampling. The elements of work-life balance policies such as flexibility policies, welfare policies, job design and leave provisions were included in this study to examine potential influence on teacher’s job satisfaction. Based on statistical analysis using SPSS, Pearson Correlation analysis four elements of work-life balance policies indicated positive and significant relationship with job satisfaction, with flexibility policies showed the strongest relationship toward teacher’s job satisfaction. Most of teachers in selected Malaysian boarding school also demonstrated high level of job satisfaction at the workplace. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Negeri Sembilan 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29850/1/29850.pdf Johari, Farah Shazlin and Ruslani, Muhammad Ridzuan and Rasli Samudin, Nor Maslia and Mohd Zolkapli, Nurhafizah and Basirun, Siti Norashikin (2018) Understanding teachers’ job satisfaction through work-life balance policies / Farah Shazlin Johari... [et al.]. (2018) Journal of Academia <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Journal_of_Academia.html>, 6 (1). pp. 112-119. ISSN 2289-6368 https://nsembilan.uitm.edu.my/joacns/
spellingShingle Study and teaching. Research
Surveys. Sampling. Statistical survey methodology
Social psychology
Statistical methods
Johari, Farah Shazlin
Ruslani, Muhammad Ridzuan
Rasli Samudin, Nor Maslia
Mohd Zolkapli, Nurhafizah
Basirun, Siti Norashikin
Understanding teachers’ job satisfaction through work-life balance policies / Farah Shazlin Johari... [et al.]
title Understanding teachers’ job satisfaction through work-life balance policies / Farah Shazlin Johari... [et al.]
title_full Understanding teachers’ job satisfaction through work-life balance policies / Farah Shazlin Johari... [et al.]
title_fullStr Understanding teachers’ job satisfaction through work-life balance policies / Farah Shazlin Johari... [et al.]
title_full_unstemmed Understanding teachers’ job satisfaction through work-life balance policies / Farah Shazlin Johari... [et al.]
title_short Understanding teachers’ job satisfaction through work-life balance policies / Farah Shazlin Johari... [et al.]
title_sort understanding teachers’ job satisfaction through work-life balance policies / farah shazlin johari... [et al.]
topic Study and teaching. Research
Surveys. Sampling. Statistical survey methodology
Social psychology
Statistical methods
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29850/
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29850/