TEACHER JOB SATISFACTION: AN APPLICATION AND EXPANSION OF THE JOB CHARACTERISTICS MODEL OF WORK MOTIVATION (BURNOUT)

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Few researchers have addressed teachers' perceptions of specific aspects of their profession through the use of a tested model of worker motivation and behavior which would employ individual difference variables. The present study attempted to redress these shortcomings through the use of the Job Characteristics Model of Work Motivation. The purposes of this study were to compare teacher job perceptions to that of private industry employees; to establish the applicability of the Job Characteristics Model to a teacher sample; to explore the relationships between task attributes, internal and external to the job, and job outcomes for high and low growth need strength (GNS) employees; and to improve upon the predictability of the model for low GNS employees through a test of the Extrinsic Job Characteristics Model. An expanded version of the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) incorporating relatedness need strength (RNS) and existence need strength (ENS) scales was administered to 292 elementary

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