Prediction of satisfaction and dissatisfaction among educational managers in state universities in Mindanao: A role specific analysis

• Main Author: Aparente, Cresencia Pangilinan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1988
• Subjects: College administrators > Job satisfaction; State universities and colleges > Philippines > Mindanao; State universities and colleges > Administration; Educational Administration and Supervision
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/649
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study determines the predictors of satisfaction/dissatisfaction of deans and department chairpersons in state universities in Mindanao using organizational variables and individual attributes. Respondents in the study were 33 deans and 86 chairpersons from six state universities in Mindanao chosen through stratified random sampling. A survey questionnaire was designed to gather the baseline data on the perceptions of the respondent administrators relative to the organizational variables and individual attributes. For data analyses, multiple correlation, canonical correlation, multiple correlation with stepwise regression were used. The findings of the investigation revealed that: 1) Respondent administrators perceived their organizations as having a high degree of bureaucratization superiors exhibiting behaviors neither positive or negative high decision-making power high level of dysfunctional politics moderately high level of work demand moderately unstable nature of external environment. 2) Respondent administrators were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with their job, the agents they worked with and compensation received. 3) For department heads, nature of supervision was found to be a correlate of job dissatisfaction. Bureaucracy was negatively related with dissatisfaction with agents they work with, while supervision and decision-making power were positively related with dissatisfaction with agents. One individual attribute-educational attainment was negatively related with dissatisfaction with agents. 4) For all groups of administrators, supervisory behavior and role or position were found to be significantly related with job satisfaction/dissatisfaction and decision-making power found significantly related with agents they worked with. These same factors were found significant predictors of job attitude and agents they work with. 5) Of individual attributes, role/position and educational attainment emerged as significant predictors of satisfaction/dissatisfaction with agents among respondents. 6) Of organizational variables, work demand, dysfunctional politics and environment were not significantly related with dissatisfaction with agents they worked with and bureaucracy, work demand, decision-making power, politics and environment did not relate significantly with job satisfaction/dissatisfaction. 7) Organizational variables did not significantly correlate nor were significant predictors of satisfaction/dissatisfaction with job, agents and compensation. 8) For chairpersons, the more negative the supervisory behavior, the more they were with job and agents they worked with; the higher the degree of bureaucratization, the less was the dissatisfaction with agents they worked with; and the more authority and influence they had, the more dissatisfied they were with agents they worked with. 9) For respondent administrators significant predictors of satisfaction/dissatisfaction varied due to their positions in the hierarchy.