Special Education Teachers and Job Satisfaction: Interlinkage of Family- Work Conflict and Work Family Conflict
Anna Issac1, Parvathy M L2
1Anna Issac, Department of Social Work, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kochi (Kerala), India.
2Ms. Parvathy M L, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kochi (Kerala), India.
Manuscript received on 27 July 2021 | Revised Manuscript received on 25 August 2021 | Manuscript Accepted on 15 September 2021 | Manuscript published on 30 September 2021 | PP: 1-4 | Volume-1 Issue-1, September 2021. | Retrieval Number: A1001091121/2021©LSP
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Abstract: The special education teacher plays a very crucial role in providing education to students with disability. The special education teachers compared to other teachers are having decreased job satisfactions because of high work-family conflict and family-work conflict. This present study aims at understanding the relation between the work-family conflict, family-work conflict and job satisfaction among special education teachers in Kottayam. For this study the researcher collected data from 60 sample of special education in kanjirapally taluk and meenachil taluk. The study was a descriptive research design. The data were collected by using standardized questionnaire. The study reported on lower job satisfaction among teachers as well as high correlation between WFC and FWC (p=.000). FWC was reported to have affecting on Job Satisfaction (p=.000). the study highlights the need for providing better working conditions for special educators. Low wages intertwined with lack of adherence to qualifications leads them to be out of the protective net of the government thus affecting their mental health and eventually hindering their potential. Teachers are an integral part of the educational system they cater to the development of the children especially the teachers working in special schools. These educators in schools plays a very crucial role in providing and facilitating education to children with disability. Comparatively with normal school teachers the special school teachers are facing problems, stress, and conflicts. Therefore, it is crucial to understand whether these factors are creating issues in their personal and professional life as well as in family. It is therefore the role of every teacher to provide instruction and ensure support to facilitate the participation of students with students with disabilities in the regular classroom. Special education teachers often require more effort to manage the disabled children in the schools compared to the other teachers working in normal schools. Special education teachers plays a crucial role in the schools that can vary from that of a Advisor, Counselor, Mentor, and Second Parent of the disabled children for the development. And these teachers need to manage their personal and professional lives smoothly as well as address concern arising from these respective spheres. most often it is difficult to manage and balancing the demand between the personal lives and their professional lives. And they are facing very difficult to managing and balancing the demand between the personal lives as well as the professional lives. Human relation refer to the way in which one can manage and interact with their others. Human relation model was developed by Elton mayo, Mary parker follet and Robert owen.It is an way to organizational management establish on the idea that workers are influence or inspire not only by the financial or economic rewards they receive but also by a dimension of social factors including praise, applause sense of belonging, feeling of victory or attainment and pride and honour in one’s work. When the attitude and spirit of employees goes up it is positively echoed in high productivity and capability of the organization this can be ensured by focusing on human beings and the human relations. If the employee get lighting in the workplace they feel a sense of belonging in the organization they work it will increase the productivity and leads to the job satisfaction of the employee. It is same as the case of these educators. They are often neglected sect of teaching professionals who most often find their place outside the safety net of the government and the policy makers. This can have an influence on the job satisfaction more importantly their quality of work.
Keywords: Education, Teachers, Job Satisfaction, Interlinkage of Family- Work, Conflict and Work Family Conflict.