Does the Work Environment Impact Job Satisfaction of Academic Faculty Members of Public Universities in Sri Lanka

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to examine whether the work environment of the state university lectures had an impact on their overall job satisfaction and to assess the overall level of job satisfaction of university lectures of public universities in Sri Lanka. A quantitative approach was employed in this study, and a structured questionnaire was used to collect data from university lectures in fifteen public universities in Sri Lanka. In terms of findings, the multiple regression analysis performed to test the research hypothesis on the relationship between work environment and overall job satisfaction indicated that the factor ‘work environment' is a highly significant positive factor affecting the overall lectures job satisfaction of academics in Sri Lankan public universities. Further, in terms of the overall job satisfaction of academic staff members of Sri Lankan state universities, the median and mean values of were found to be 3.95 and 3.93 (in a 1-5 Likert scale), respectively, and in addition, the mean value was also found to be significantly higher than the neural value 3 (based on one-sample t-test). This means that the university lectures are generally satisfied with their jobs in the Sri Lankan context.