A Survey on University Lecturer Job Satisfaction

Abstract

Even in student-centered educational systems, teachers still remain important subjects of knowledge construction process, thus their satisfaction should be studied if efficient education process and healthy classroom environments are the goals. The addressees of the article are both administration of educational institutions and lecturers. The goal of research is to find out which factors of job satisfaction lecturers find especially important. Based on literature analysis three groups of factors were defined (internal, semi-external and external), with a list of 27 factors totally. Respondents were asked to assess them on a Likert scale. Based on results, recommendations were offered.