The relationship between motivation and job satisfaction of secondary school teachers

الملخص EN

This study aimed to find out the relationship between teachers’-who are on duty in Aydın’s Efeler town-motivation level and job satisfaction.

The sample of this study is 268 teachers.

Results of research showed that teachers’ organizational-administrational motivation level is higher than economic and psycho-social motivation level.

In addition to this internal satisfaction level is higher than external satisfaction.

According to demographic variables female teachers’ organizational-administrational motivation level is higher than male teachers.

Teachers whose teaching department is mostly consist verbal lessons have higher organizational-administrational motivation level than quantitative department teachers.

On the other hand, teachers whose teaching department is mostly consist skills lessons have higher internal and general satisfaction level than quantitative department teachers.

There is a positive significant correlation between teachers’ motivation level and job satisfaction.

The psycho-social motivation level and internal satisfaction have the highest rank