Government’s Restructuring Pay Policy and Job Satisfaction: The Case of Teachers in the Ga West Municipal Assembly of Ghana

Joseph Forson and Rosemary Afrakomah Opoku

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Abstract: This paper examines the ‘aftermath effect’ of the new civil service pay policy on job satisfaction among teachers in Ghana. We explore an avalanche of job satisfaction theories and instruments to identify key concepts and variables in building a baseline conceptual and research model. The findings of the study suggest that income, personal growth, bonus and organizational type have both effects (direct and indirect) on job satisfaction. The two-way analysis as well as the multivariate analysis of variance also indicates that gender, age group, and educational background also play a role in determining the level of satisfaction among teachers. The high unemployment rate (11 %) and the implementation of the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) for the public sector in 2010 are also contributing factors to the retention of teachers.

Keywords: Job satisfaction; Management; Single-Spine-Salary-Structure; MANOVA; Stepwise Regression; Ghana (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J33 J38 J62 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-06-30
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Published in International Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning 1.3(2014): pp. 79-99

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