Constraints Affecting the Teachers’ Job Satisfaction of Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Odisha

Abstract

The study was conducted in three campuses of Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar viz. Bhubaneswar, Chiplima and Bhawanipatna in 2019 to find out constraints affecting the job satisfaction along with the suggestions for improving the job satisfaction of teachers working in the University. Ninety respondents from these three campuses were selected for the study using a random sampling procedure. Data was collected from the respondents by implementing personal interview method. Majority of the respondents state that the constraints like lack of enough teaching staff, duty related workload, insufficient staff quarters and shortage of lands for research and practical classes were prominent in hampering their job satisfaction. The suggestions for solving the constraints predominantly suggested were teachers’ recruitment for workload optimization, adequate staff quarters, sanctioning adequate funding along with lands for research.

Occupational Stress and Role Performance-expectation Gap Amongst Teachers of OUAT, Bhubaneswar

“…The state agricultural university possess a distinctive system of functioning owing to the diversity in their roles and responsibilities whereby there is elevation of faculties beyond the singular roles of scientists, trainers or teachers (Borah, 2019). According to Jayasingh et al, (2022), the stability of agri-education imparted by the State Agricultural Universities (SAUs) banks on the working rigours of the teachers and that is why it becomes inevitable not to be ignorant towards the content and satisfaction derived from executing their roles assigned to their job, which forms an important component under human resource management of the concerned university as an organization.…”