Investigating the Relationship between Occupational Stress, Motivation and Job Satisfaction among University Teachers (A Case of University of Gujrat)

Abstract

The most important objective of the study is to investigate the relationship between occupational stress motivation and job satisfaction among university teachers. Job satisfaction has been treated as a dependent variable and occupational stress and motivation has been treated as an independent variable. Based on the literature review two hypothesis were formulated (1) there is no significant relationship exists between occupational stress and job satisfaction (2) there is a significant relationship exists between job satisfaction and motivation. The research has conducted among university teachers with reference to Gujrat city. A 171 university teachers were selected as a sample from university of Gujarat Hafiz Hayat Campus. A simple random sampling technique is used. For our study questionnaire has been used as data collection tool. Descriptive statistics, Correlation, reliability and Regression Analysis are used to analyze data. The Pearson correlation result shows that no significant relationship exists between occupational stress and job satisfaction of university teachers. So our hypothesis H1o is accepted. The Pearson correlation results also indicate that there is positive relationship exists between job satisfaction and motivation of university teachers. So our hypothesis H2a is also accepted.