Study about Employee Empowerment Strategies for Private Universities Teachers in Punjab, India: Approach For Job Satisfaction

Abstract

With the introduction of numerous social platforms and technical breakthroughs during this pandemic era, the teaching fraternity is going through enormous upheaval. Every firm's first priority is to ensure that its employees are happy with their work, and to this end they are developing various employee empowerment initiatives that emphasise the value of human resources in every organisation. Some people are dissatisfied with management's behaviour, and unions are working to improve things. In some organisations, training and development programmes are organised to prepare employees for a changing environment, and many other things are done, so job satisfaction comes gradually.

Within this context, the following research is being conducted to determine the impact of employee empowerment strategies on job satisfaction among private university teachers in Punjab. In terms of method, this research is descriptive, so an empirical study is conducted using 100 questionnaires based on a five-point Likert Scale, and all questionnaires that were complete in all respects were used to draw generalisations. Few of statistical techniques like Correlation, Regression analysis and ANOVA has been applied to draw conclusions. To assess the reliability of data Cronbach’s alpha coefficient is used and it came out to be 0.901 which is acceptable. SPSS was used to draw generalizations.The findings of the research conclude that there is impact of employee empowerment strategies on job satisfaction and Coefficient Correlation coefficient for employee empowerment strategies and job satisfaction is 0.541. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level. The value of R= .541 which is high and R Square=.293 which represents moderate correlation between dependent and independent variables.