THE DEGREE OF JOB SATISFACTION OF TEACHERS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN AL-QASSIM

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Keywords: job satisfaction, public schools, private school, teachers

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Abstract: This study aimed to identify the degree of job satisfaction of teachers of public and private schools in Al-Qassim. The study sample consisted of (252) teachers of the public and private schools in Al-Qassim in Saudi Arabia, job satisfaction scale from Ahmad's preparation (2014) was used, which consisted of four fields: (motivations and rewards, work conditions, appreciation, and respect, belonging to profession), and the results of this study indicated the following: - The arithmetical averages ranged between (3.03-3.26), where the field of (belonging to the profession) placed the first rank, while the field (working conditions) placed the last rank, and the average of the tool as whole is (3.26), and it's moderate. -There are no statistically significant differences (α=0.05) due to gender in all fields and in a total degree. - There are no statistically significant differences (α = 0.05) due to the effect of experience years in all fields and in the total degree except for the first two fields. The differences were in favor of the experience category for more than 10 years in motivations and rewards. And in the third field, the differences were in favor of experience category 1-6.

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