Aida Mehrad, Hanina Halimatussadiah Ma’rof Bin Redzuan, Haslinda Abdullah
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The Effect of Gender on Job Satisfaction of Academic Staff in Malaysian Public Universities Aida Mehrad, Hanina Halimatussadiah Ma’rof Bin Redzuan, Haslinda Abdullah
Journal of Educational, Health and Community Psychology Vol 4 No 2 June 2015
Publisher : Universitas Ahmad Dahlan

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AbstractBased on last due decades, job satisfaction assumed as one of the imperative organizational factors that has great role among staff at workplace;  furthermore,focusing on this important factor and finding effective items that impact on the level of job satisfaction is very essential. The main purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between gender and job satisfaction of academic staff at public universities in Malaysia. The Job Descriptive Index inventory (JDI) was used to measures five dimensions of job satisfaction among academic staff. The data of this research taken from440 academic staff were occupied in Malaysian public universities. The findings illustrated there is a significant relationship between supervision as one of the dimension of job satisfaction and gender that analyzed by t-test.Key word: Gender, Job Satisfaction, Academic Staff, University
The Role of Personality Factors on Job Satisfaction among Academic Staff at Public Research University Aida Mehrad, Hanina Halimatussadiah Ma’rof Bin Redzuan, Haslinda Abdullah
Journal of Educational, Health and Community Psychology Vol 4 No 1 April 2015
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Abstract The current study was intended to examine the association between personality factors and job satisfaction among academic staff. The job satisfaction assumed as an essential factor in educational organizations spatially university that influenced by various factors. Moreover, distinguishing these effective factors is very important and lack of consideration to this inner feeling leads to several abnormal organizational behaviors at university. Therefore, this study focused on the association between these two factors at university. A cross-sectional examination design was applied with purposive selected sample that taken from academic staff (N=440) of public research universities in Klang Valley, Malaysia. In present study, the participants completed the job descriptive index inventory and the big five personality test which explained their personality factors and their relation with job satisfaction. It is concluded that neuroticism as one of the main personality factors predicts job satisfaction and there is negative relationship between neuroticism and job satisfaction and also there are positive relationships between agreeableness, consciousness and openness with job satisfaction that analyzed by correlation coefficient and regression analysis test. Key word: personality factors, job satisfaction, academic staff, university
Relationship between Reward and Emotional Intelligence of Academic Staff at Malaysian Public Universities Aida Mehrad, Hanina Halimatussadiah Ma’rof Bin Redzuan, Haslinda Abdullah
Journal of Educational, Health and Community Psychology Vol 4 No 1 April 2015
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AbstractOne of the great positive behavioral factors among staff at university is emotional intelligence. In reality, emotional intelligence is cause of different reaction at workplace that was appeared by staff and also controlled most of moods in various situations. Moreover, knowing factors that impact on emotional intelligence is very vital and lead to different positive and negative behavior among staff. Reward is one of these external effective factors that influence on emotional intelligence. Present study considered to these two factors and also investigates their association together. The sample of this study made up of 440 academic staff that work in public research universities in Malaysia. The participants completed the emotional intelligence scale. The results indicated that there are significant associations between reward with emotional intelligence items (perception and managing own emotion) that analyzed by t-test.Key word: reward, emotional intelligence, staff, university