Job Satisfaction in the first-year undergraduate programs during the Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the level of job satisfaction of faculty members in the first-year university programs at a Saudi university during the COVID-19, in the light of variables are the type of contract at the university, age, number of years of work at the university, education, academic rank, department, and experience. The study used the descriptive approach to measure the level of job satisfaction. The researchers used the survey of Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University to measure the level of job satisfaction. The survey includes 11 domains are Administrative Policies, Supervision, Interpersonal Relationships, Recognition and Reward, Working Conditions, Job Security, My Work Itself, Professional Responsibilities, Professional Achievements, Professional Advancement, and Salary. The number of faculty participants in this study (217) with a ratio (79.8 %) from the original community.

The study results showed that the level of job satisfaction of faculty members was "high" in all domains, and the results showed that there were no statistically significant differences at the level of 0.05 on the total degree of the domains of job satisfaction among university faculty members compared to the teaching staff of education and training companies. The results showed that there are statistically significant differences at the level of 0.05 on the total degree of the domains of job satisfaction, where the level of job satisfaction is affected by the following variables: education, academic rank, age, experience, and department, on the other hand, the results showed that there are no statistically significant differences at the level of 0.05 in the total degree of the domains of job satisfaction depending on to the number of years of work at the university.