Employee engagement and job satisfaction among secondary school teachers.

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the relationship between employee engagement and job satisfaction secondary school teachers. The study intended to achieve the objectives of finding out the levels of engagement among secondary school teachers, finding out the levels of satisfaction among secondary school teachers and ascertaining the relationship between engagement and job satisfaction among secondary school teachers. A correlational study design was used in the study to establish the relationship between engagement and job satisfaction among secondary school teachers. The study used a sample of 50 respondents who adapted to simple random sampling technique. Data was collected using self-administered questionnaire and analyzed using statistical package for social scientist (version 23) and Pearson correlation coefficient (r) was used to test the hypothesis. The levels of employee engagement were high, the levels of Jon satisfaction were moderately high. Find in ding showed a positive non-significant relationship between employee engagement and job satisfaction (r=.059, p>0.05). This meant that the increase in one variable does not lead to the increase in the other variable.