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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 The values of individual Beta‟s are given in table 11, Tenure got negative Beta weight of –(0.374), which suggest job satisfaction and tenure of staff is negatively related ( inverse), with more tenure are experiencing lower job satisfaction level. The Beta weight of age is positive (0.098), which suggest that older faculty members have higher level of job satisfaction. Gender was found to be not statistically significant. Thus among faculty members of business institutes of Pakistan it is observed that rank and employee tenure are significant to predict level of job satisfaction, on the other side staff age and gender are weak predictors of job satisfaction among the faculty members. 5. CONCLUSION This research provides the evidence of an empirical study; where the impact of age, gender, rank and job tenure on job satisfaction of business institutes was explored. Job Satisfaction is key to individual as well as organizational success. Faculty members like other employees have certain issues when it‟s come to job satisfaction. This study was conducted to explore deep in to this context through Job description Index, the faculty members working in business institutes of Pakistan (from four provinces namely, Sindh, Punjab, KPK and Baluchistan) have shown their satisfaction with coworkers, nature of work , and supervision they received in their institutes. The study found Pay and chances for promotion is the causes of job dissatisfaction among the participants of the study. Tenure of staff and their rank was significantly associated with the overall level of job satisfaction (p
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