DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i11.002

Pages: 2059-2066

This study attempted to examine the relationship among job satisfaction, burnout and teaching efficacy of secondary school teachers. A lot has been said about the job satisfaction of teachers, yet least has clearly identified its effect on the level of burn out and their teaching efficacy. This gives the researcher an inspiration to conduct the study on the relationship among job satisfaction, burnout and teaching efficacy of secondary school teachers the case of summer in service teachers in Haramaya University. The specific objectives of the study were: Examining the status of job satisfaction, examining the relationship among job satisfaction, burnout and teachers teaching efficacy, analyzing the status of burn of level of secondary school teachers. To conduct this study a correlational research design was employed on 203 participants (114 male and 89 females) from summers in service teachers in Haramaya University. A self-report questionnaire with items from background data and an adapted tests that measure job satisfaction, burn out and teaching efficacy was employed. The scales have a reliability of 0.73, 0.74 and 0.77 respectively. Descriptive statistics and Pearson moment correlation was used in order to analyze the data. Results showed that participants experience an average level of job satisfaction and high level of burn out. There is also significant negative relationship between job satisfaction and burn out as well as between burn out and teaching efficacy. But, there is a significant positive relationship between job satisfaction and teaching efficacy. Eventually, the researcher concludes that job satisfaction and burn out influences the teaching efficacy of teachers.