Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction and Retention: English Medium School in Bangladesh

Mohitul Ameen Ahmed Mustafi, Farhana Mitu, Tarana Azmi, Mohammed Jahirul Islam

The objective of the study is to investigate the factors that influence teacher perceptions on job satisfaction and retention of English Medium School. The data has been taken mainly from primary sources. This study has been conducted on 200 respondents, with structured questionnaire, who have continued their job in different English medium schools in Dhaka city of Bangladesh. For collecting data, the simple random sampling method has been used. For analyzing and testing data and reliability, multivariate analysis techniques like factor analysis and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) have been used. Descriptive statistics has been used for explaining the demographic characteristics of the respondents. By using SEM, the results show that the job satisfaction factors like the availability of the resources, decision making role, students’ behavior, workload are the influential factors on retention in English medium school teachers of Bangladesh. This study suggests that in the education sector like English medium school of Bangladesh the policy makers and concerned authorities should focus more on the factors like availability of the resources, decision making role, workload, student’s behavior for better improvement of their institution.