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Job satisfaction of college teachers are affected by personal factors of the teachers, institutional factors and environmental factors. Environmental factors are other than personal (related with the teacher) or institutional (related with the college and the persons related with the college) factors. These include system variables like government policies, economic conditions of the state and the country, policies of the parental bodies like UGC, MHRD, Higher Educational Council, and affiliating university.  In this paper, environmental factors of job satisfaction of college teachers have been considered to examine if they are significant determinants of job satisfaction. These include PBAS, Pay-packet system, ROPA, age of superannuation, transfer policy, increments for higher qualifications, unemployment problem, examination and students ’ union election are expected to have significant contributions on job satisfaction of the college teachers. The results show that teachers’ career related environment factors are significant in determining job satisfaction of college teachers. Similarly, students’ behaviour under certain circumstances is also found to be significant.

Keywords

Performance based appraisal system (PBAS), Revision of pay and allowance (ROPA), Additional increments due to higher qualification, Career advancement scheme (CAS), Likert’s five point scale

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