JOB SATISFACTION AMONG FACULTY MEMBERS AT COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT FROM THEIR POINT OF VIEW

The current study aimed to identify the organizational commitment and job satisfaction of the faculty members working at community colleges affiliated with the Applied Balqa’ University on the administrative, financial, and academic level. It also aimed to identify the relationship between their job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The current study’s population consisted of all the faculty members working at the community colleges that are affiliated with the Applied Balqa’ University on the administrative, financial, and academic level. As for the sample of the current study, it includes one hundred (100) faculty members working at those community colleges. The researcher of the current study assessed the validity and reliability of the survey. It was concluded that the faculty members working at those community colleges showed moderate degrees of satisfaction about the teaching environment, climate material and moral incentives they receive. It was concluded that those faculty members showed a high levels of organizational commitment. The researchers of the current study suggested several recommendations. For instance, it was recommended exerting more efforts to improve the overall learning environment of the community colleges. Such improvements should involve the infrastructure and services that are necessary for faculty members. For instance, such improvements shall raise the job satisfaction of those faculty members. The current study recommended improving the tools provided for them and the materials and moral incentives they receive. That is because all of that shall raise their job satisfaction levels.