Abstract:
The purpose of this study would to investigate the factors that affect the job satisfaction of teachers in Kilbatti rasu Zone selected General secondary school in Afar regional state. A descriptive survey research design would be used to achieve the purpose of the study. On top of this, the research sample would 113 teachers from Kilbatti Rasu zone Woreda’s/City General secondary school, 12 principals of schools, 92 teachers and 9 Director and Supervisors. These samples are drawn from the total population using availability sampling for principals and simple random sampling techniques for the rest of the respondents from each branch. Moreover, the data gathering tools for this research would questionnaire and interview .Meanwhile, the response rate for this study would almost 100% for principals, teachers, students and parents. Data collected using these instruments would analyse using descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentages. Besides, quantitative data would analysis using tabulation, percentage and graphs while thematic analysis would used to analyze qualitative data. Finally, the result of study shows there are internal (salary and benefit, professional growth, promotion, evaluation and fairness), external (administration change, working environment and condition, expectation of teachers) and training are the factors lead teachers to dissatisfaction of job. Based in the results of the study, it would recommended that teachers should engage their employer through their unions for better pay, including the increase of starting pay for newly employed teachers from job group to while the concerned stakeholders in education sector should ensure that more teachers are employed and the infrastructure in school is improved for more teacher satisfaction. Further studies can be done on the factors affecting teachers’ job satisfaction in other counties to find out more about the state of education system in schools
