FACTORS INFLUENCING TEACHERS’ CAREER SATISFACTION

Abstract

Career satisfaction as individuals’ subjective evaluations of their own careers can be seen as the main component of career success in the actual labor market. Research on teaching career satisfaction has examined different occupational groups, but teachers are still the underrepresented category. The research problem of this inquiry is how higher school teachers perceive the factors of teacher career satisfaction. To compile the empirical research data qualitative content analysis method is used. The findings of the major domains presented are discovered using the method of the interview. During the course of this study, it is found that for teachers, in particular, job satisfaction is influenced by: external factors (university management and a favorable climate within the educational organization, social factors of the institution’s status and the educational technologies used); internal factors (promoting student achievement and self-development). In conclusion, the author distinguishes the following factors of career satisfaction: emotional connection to work, favorable working conditions, psychological state and emotional background, personal characteristics, and skills, which help to feel career satisfaction, control emerging emotions, recognize them and respond accordingly.