Understanding teachers' job satisfaction through work-life balance policies
Farah Shazlin Johari1, Muhammad Ridzuan Ruslani2, Nor Maslia Rasli Samudin3, Nurhafizah Mohd Zolkapli4, Siti Norashikin Basirun5.
Work-life balance play an important role in influencing employee’s quality of social and
working life together with job satisfaction in the organization. Nowadays, teachers are also
included in the context of work-life balance due to academic workload and career issues. In
this study, researchers aim to explore work-life balance policies that influence teacher’s job
satisfaction in selected Malaysia boarding school. Only 56 school teachers were selected to
represent as respondents consist of teachers from language, mathematics, science, social
science, counselling unit, and vice principals department. The questionnaires were distributed
using convenience sampling. The elements of work-life balance policies such as flexibility
policies, welfare policies, job design and leave provisions were included in this study to
examine potential influence on teacher’s job satisfaction. Based on statistical analysis using
SPSS, Pearson Correlation analysis four elements of work-life balance policies indicated
positive and significant relationship with job satisfaction, with flexibility policies showed the
strongest relationship toward teacher’s job satisfaction. Most of teachers in selected
Malaysian boarding school also demonstrated high level of job satisfaction at the workplace.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
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