Job satisfaction and employee creativity and innovation for student affairs practitioners

• Main Author: Loyola, Leandro A.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: Student affairs administrators—Job satisfaction; Job satisfaction; Student Counseling and Personnel Services
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/13192
• Institution: De La Salle University

Student affairs and services play an important role in the success of educational institutions most especially in carrying out students’ holistic development and as a support to academics in order to facilitate learning. The student affairs administrators and practitioners contribute a lot in ensuring the delivery of dynamic programs and services that are responsive to the needs of the students. Because of this, the student affairs practitioners are expected to be creative and innovative in the field in order to provide and assure the quality of programs and services that addresses the everchanging needs of their clientele. This paper examined the relationship of job satisfaction and employee innovation and creativity among student affairs practitioners. The descriptive-correlational design was employed to describe the relationship between the variables. The data were collected using validated preexisting survey instruments. The data gathered was analyzed using Chi-Square test of independence and Pearson product moment correlation. The methods confirmed that there is a strong relationship between the variables job satisfaction and employee innovation and creativity as perceived by the respondent student affairs practitioners.