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International Journal of Contemporary Business Studies Vol: 3, No: 6. June, 2012 ISSN 2156-7506 Available online at http://www.akpinsight.webs.com Relationship of Age, Gender, Tenure, Rank and Job Satisfaction- Empirical Evidence from Business Institute of Pakistan Dr. Niaz Ahmed Bhutto Associate Professor Sukkur Institute of Business Administration, Sukkur, PAKISTAN Naveed Anwar (Correspondence Author) Research Scholar Sukkur Institute of Business Administration, Sukkur, PAKISTAN & Faculty Member Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Larkana, Pakistan Hyder Ali Khawaja Faculty Member & Research Scholar Sukkur Institute of Business Administration, Sukkur, Pakistan ABSTRACT International Journal of Contemporary Business Studies Vol: 3, No: 6. June, 2012 Pp15-27 ©Academy of Knowledge Process Job satisfaction is widely studied area by many researchers around the globe. Especially Job satisfaction among the teaching staff of higher education institutes had been an area of curiosity for both management as well as the policy makers. The lack of quality and dedicated staff is a dying need of every education institute. Most of the qualified staff is migrating to other countries and those presently working as teachers have many concerns with their jobs. Thus, a comprehensive study was required in this domain with a special reference to Pakistani context. The main objective of this study is to measure the job satisfaction level of the faculty members, those who work with business institutes of Pakistan, and to find the relationship of overall job satisfaction level with variables like age, gender, tenure and rank. Convenience sampling method was adopted to select the sample for research.The sample (N= 191) consisted upon the faculty members of business institutes of four provinces of Pakistan, Sindh, Punjab, Baluchistan and Khyber Pahtoon Khaw. Both genders male as well as females have participated as respondents. Samples were having different salary levels ranging from 1 to 8 scales, categorized in to the following ranks: Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Lecturers. The Job Description Index (JDI) and a biographical questionnaire were administered to collect the data. The instrument used for research JDI is a reliable tool to measure the overall satisfaction level based on five main facets, staff relationship with people or coworker, the satisfaction with pay staff receive, the quality of Copyright © 2012. Academy of Knowledge Process 15
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