Identifying and ranking the factors affecting teachers' job motivation (Case study: Secondary schools in Behbahan city)

Document Type : Original Article

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1 MSc, educational management, department of educational management, Marvdasht branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran

2 MSc, educational management, department of educational management, Behbahan branch, Islamic Azad University, Behbahan, Iran

3 PhD in Educational Management, University of Tehran

Abstract

The present study aims to identify and rank the factors affecting job motivation of high school teachers in Behbahan. This study method is applied research in terms of purpose and mixed research in terms of data collection. For this purpose, the statistical population of the research in the qualitative section includes all experts and related to the concept under study, which purposefully and using theoretical sampling strategy, 15 experts were selected. In the quantitative part, the statistical population included all secondary school teachers in Behbahan (1450), which 306 were selected as a sample using stratified random sampling and Morgan table. The required data are collected using a researcher-made questionnaire that has 4 components of individual factors, management factors, organizational factors, and occupational factors. Findings showed that among the individual variables, job motivation and communication skills and self-control, obtained the highest score among the individual variables affecting job motivation. Among the organizational variables, perceived organizational justice and organizational discipline achieved the highest score and among job variables, workplace mental health and required facilities and equipment received the highest score affecting teachers' job motivation among respondents.

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