Job Satisfaction among Primary School Personnel

Carlos Gamero Buron and Gérard Lassibille ()
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Carlos Gamero Buron: Universidad de Málaga [Málaga] = University of Málaga [Málaga]
Gérard Lassibille: CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, IREDU - Institut de Recherche sur l'Education : Sociologie et Economie de l'Education [Dijon] - UB - Université de Bourgogne - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE]
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Abstract: This article analyzes the job satisfaction of primary school teachers inMadagascar. Based on the estimation of multilevel models, low wages and problems getting paid, job insecurity, lack of in-service training, high pupil-teacher ratios, and lack of basic infrastructure and teaching materials are identified as the main reasons for dissatisfaction. Principals' control of teachers' activities also adversely affects satisfaction, suggesting that, in Malagasy schools, neither school directors nor teachers have succeeded in adopting organizational cultures based on cooperation among their members. These results are likely to stimulate debates on educational policy, both in Madagascar and in many other developing countries.

Keywords: Job satisfaction; primary education; Madagascar; multilevel models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-06-09
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Published in XIX Applied Economics Meeting, Universidad de Alicante, Jun 2016, Séville, Spain

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