Are Professors Satisfied With Their Jobs? The Factors That Influence Professors’ Job Satisfaction

This study aims to explore professors’ job satisfaction and the factors that influence their satisfaction. Professors whose main duties were instruction, research, service, advising (i.e., four types of responsibilities) invited participate in study; participants ( n = 117) completed a questionnaire survey, interviews 50) also conducted investigate perceptions. The proposed model includes second-order hierarchy comprising advising) results revealed participating professors tended be moderately satisfied with jobs full was greater than assistant professors. order key influenced overall advising, research. Furthermore, consistent motivator-hygiene theory, “university work environment” “nature academic job” two significantly participants. Of these factors, had predicting participants’ satisfaction, especially for higher-ranked findings suggest universities can increase by enhancing professional development activities; improving environment, equipment, support; providing more regulatory flexibility; implementing teacher grievance mechanisms reward systems meet needs