Mediation of Motivation in the Relationship between Psychological Empowerment and Job Satisfaction of the School Teachers
Abstract
Teacher’s motivation and Job satisfaction plays a vital role in their effective teaching which circuitously affects the students’ learning. In addition, literature documents that if teachers are psychological empowered, they possess positive attitude towards their job. Therefore, the study was aimed to examine the mediating role of motivation in the relationship between psychological empowerment and job satisfaction of the school teachers. Where, psychological empowerment along with four sub variables described by Spreitzer (1995) was taken as the independent variable and job satisfaction is dependent variable.A quantitative survey research design was used to collect the data. Total 317 secondary school teachers were selected through multi stage sampling technique from the three tehsils of Sargodha. Proposed model was test by using structural equation modeling in AMOS v.20. The fit indices depicted that data fit the model well (Fit indices (χ2(normed) = 1.766; CFI = .991; RMSEA = 0.04). Moreover, the path estimates showed that motivation is significantly mediated in the relationship between psychological empowerment, particularly its two sub variables ‘Meaning’ and ‘competence’, and job satisfaction. Thus, the findings showed that when teachers feel psychologically empowered, they become loyal and committed towards their organization and ready to put their best efforts for the betterment of their organization.
Authors
Nargis Abbas
Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan
Uzma Ashiq
Lecturer, Department of Social Work, University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan
Robina Noreen
M. Phil Scholar, Department of Education, University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan
Keywords
Competence, Meaning, Self-Determination And Impact, Structural Equation Modeling