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A COMPARISON OF JOB SATISFACTION AS MEASURED BY ACADEMIC DEANS AT INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION WITH AND WITHOUT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
Abstract
Purpose of the Study. The purpose of the study was to determine the influence collective bargaining has on job satisfaction of the academic dean. Sample and Procedures. Academic deans serving two-year public institutions of higher education composed the population for this study. A random sample of 316 academic deans was selected with 158 of these deans serving institutions without collective bargaining and 158 of them serving institutions with collective bargaining. A total of 226 academic deans completed and returned the survey instrument. The chi-square statistic was the principal method used to analyze the data gathered regarding these two groups of academic deans. Findings. The descriptive statistics taken from the responses indicate that academic deans at institutions with collective bargaining represent 35.2 percent more faculty than those academic deans serving institutions without collective bargaining. Academic deans at unionized schools have 2.3 more years of experience with collective bargaining than those academic deans serving non-unionized schools. There was no significant difference found in the job satisfaction of academic deans at institutions with and without collective bargaining with the exception of three questions. In order to ascertain the difference in opinions of the two types of academic deans regarding collective bargaining, a series of five questions was included in the questionnaire. Significant differences of opinion were found for four of the five questions. Both categories of academic deans ranked "Restricted Funding," "Enrollment Fluctuations," and "Faculty Resistance to Change" as the top three obstacles to be faced during this decade. Conclusions. Taking a global view of all responses from both groups of academic deans, it must be concluded that job satisfaction of academic deans at institutions with collective bargaining was not appreciably higher than that of academic deans serving institutions without collective bargaining. Taken on an individual basis, however, it was found that there was a significant difference on three of the eighteen questions regarding job satisfaction.
Subject Area
Higher education
Recommended Citation
RUDELL, LAVERNE C, "A COMPARISON OF JOB SATISFACTION AS MEASURED BY ACADEMIC DEANS AT INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION WITH AND WITHOUT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING" (1982). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8227038.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8227038