A Comparative Study of Job Commitment of Bps and Tts Teachers in Universities of Malakand Division

Abstract

The aim of this research was to find out “Job commitment of BPS and TTS teachers in universities of Malakand division”. The main objectives of the research study were to explore the job commitment of both the BPS and TTS teachers, to compare the job commitment of both the BPS and TTS teachers, This research was delimited to the public sector universities of Malakand division. The research design of the study was survey and causal comparative, as data were collected from both BPS and TTS university teachers through Job Commitment Scale (JSC) and comparison was done because job commitment had two grouping variables BPS and TTS. there were 71 statements and the minimum score was 1 for strongly disagree (SDA) statement while maximum value was 5 for strongly agree (SA) as it was constructed, therefore the maximum and minimum values for all statement were added and were divided by two (2) which was 213 (median of the scale). The population of the study were 257 university teachers, including Assistant Professors, Associate Professors, and Professors from public sector universities in the Malakand Division. The sample size was 155 teachers and 124 questionnaires were returned because of the busy schedule of the teacher’s .Response rate was 80 %. After validation the final scale was composed of 71 items. For reliability purpose Cronbach’s Alpha was foud 0.85 which was acceptable. The data was analyzed by descriptive as well as inferential statistics through SPSS. The main results of the study were; the level of job commitment of both BPS and TTS university teachers on (JCS) was high, comparatively the job commitment of BPS university teachers was higher than TTS university teachers The main recommendation of the study was, Universities of Pakistan should take the recruitment of all teachers on BPS basis, and should give job security to TTS teachers.