Job Satisfaction among Afghan University Teachers: A Comparative Study of Public and Private Universities

The study has been conducted with a view to determine the level of job satisfaction among Afghan university teachers within Afghanistan, emphasizing both public and private universities. Job satisfaction is the feeling of contentment or source of accomplishment. It’s more like a person’s insightfulness, internal feeling and emotion that could be linked to things like a person feeling of achieving something. 160 university teachers participated in the study among 16 universities from 8 provinces in Afghanistan. Job Satisfaction scale by Yudhivirendara Mudgil, Prof. I. S. Muhar and Prabha Bhatia was used for data collection. The result of overall sample reported low level of job satisfaction followed by high, moderate and low levels. Domain-wise distribution shows that government university teachers have higher job satisfaction in case of, advantages, accommodation, promotion and job security. Due to gender distribution of overall sample female teacher reported low job satisfaction in case of security, harassment. However in government universities both genders have almost similar job satisfaction in case of job security, accommodation, status and promotion. In case of differences between the gender and type of university, the findings of the current study revealed that there is not exist a significant difference in job satisfaction of government and private university teachers in Afghanistan. The results found significant interaction among gender working in government and private universities.