Job Satisfaction

Job satisfaction is heavily intertwined with climate issues. Job satisfaction may be viewed as the expression of a faculty member’s perception of engagement, power, treatment, and role, as well as departmental and institutional policies and procedures. It is a large and subjective area to tap into. It can also be a causal factor, affecting such outcomes as productivity and retention. Indeed, it seems likely that job satisfaction mediates, at least in part, between professional activi­ties, institutional resources, and climate on the one hand, and the various outcome variables on the other. However, because we did not measure job satisfaction in our survey, we cannot test this possibility directly.