COGNITIVE AND NON-COGNITIVE PARAMETERS OF JOB SATISFACTION OFSCHOOL TEACHERS

Academic competency is the primary requirement for teaching profession, but it is true that some basic attributes are necessary to be an effective teacher and should have a good character, sound teaching attitude, accountability, empathy, sound mental health, liking for job and job satisfaction. According to Paul Spectres (1985), Job satisfaction is about liking your jobs and findings fulfilment in what you do, in combines an individual feelings and emotions about his profession and how his job affects his personal life. Job satisfaction is the function of a set of variables such as intelligence, socio-economic status, personality characteristics, social acceptance occupational commitment organizational climate etc. and moreover educational qualification, self-concept, mental health, and occupational stress are also important affecting variables for the job satisfaction of the teachers. We cannot have output-based education system unless it is based on job satisfaction of teachers. But it has been observed that only cognitive excellence is not sufficient condition for enabling job-satisfaction and others non cognitive factors to be added or to be practiced in an institution for acquiring job satisfaction to be explored in the present paper. The study was a Qualitative research approach. Qualitative analysis has been conducted for finding out Cognitive and Non-Cognitive factors. Based on Coding and Categorizing Cognitive and non-cognitive factors of Job Satisfaction have been Identified.