The empirical study of the kindergarten teachers’ job satisfaction in Taiwan: exploring the effect of the intrinsic demand, external reward, and organizational treatment

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Abstract

There is difference in vocational environment between kindergarten teachers and childcare center teachers in Taiwan, in which, generally, public are superior to private ones. We hope through nationwide samples (in Taiwan) to explore the kindergarten teachers’ job satisfaction, and the effect of the intrinsic demand, external reward, and organizational treatment. The results show: the results show the external reward is the most important effective factor to teachers’ satisfaction. The second effective factor is the perception of organizational treatment, in which the perception of justice that teachers are treated is the second option if the kindergartens’ principals hope to raise teachers’ job satisfaction. The third effective factor is the intrinsic demand, including the feeling exchange, value fitness.

Authors

• Yi-Gean Chen, Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology

• Jao-Nan Cheng