Factors Affecting Academic Staff

Shaheen, Sajid, Batool (2013), mentions some of the factors that affect motivation of faculties or the academic staff. The most important two factors according to them are: Individual or person specific factors and Institution or organization specific factors. These factors may appear in the form of career enhancements, perks offered to the faculty members and also in the form of laying down the encouraging administrative policies that creates conducive teaching or education environment within the Institution or the organization itself.

It is seen that the development of any country is indicated by its educational system and faculty therein which can be considered as founders to the country. The role of a faculty as a facilitator is of immense

Such faculty or teaching staff may provide more in depth training by making effective use of wider, in-depth, and integrated sets of knowledge and skills. Also they have an ability to deliver their interesting lectures by illustration of some practical scenarios and case studies.

According to Nadeem et al., (2011) there exists a wide range of variables that affects the motivational level of academic staff. These may career options, preferences, duty structure, demands, low salary, and student’s behaviour etc. Such variables or aspects may have a significant impact on teaching staff 's attitudes towards their profession.

Mehboob et al., (2009) says that developed nations are ahead in making researches by way of innovation and technology development. It is possible for them to do this only because they have presence of reputed institutions having a wide range of supporting infrastructure amenities and talented, knowledgeable teaching personnel.

RoU (1992) makes a point about quality and standard of the education provided to the students. It also says that there is scope for improvement when the resources are well arranged – mainly the teaching staff that comes with knowledge, commitment and

This theory says that if the factors associated with work are given due importance (such as growth prospectus, career enhancement, recognition), then the staff will find itself essentially encouraged.

Victor (2010) puts emphasis on implementation of administrative policies. It says that this can have much more impact on the faculty members. It is the key to success for the institutions to recruit the right personnel with right talent and ability. This will in turn result in rewarding results. If this is not done in proper manner, then the image of the institution as well as the personnel will be at stake and may bring more disrespect.

Zhou & Volkwein (2003) mentions that the teaching profession is very different than routine nine to five jobs as the teaching staff has play various roles in this competitive environment. It could be mentor, facilitator, trainer, friend, and so on. It also states that variations in payments to teaching staff have an impact on their satisfaction levels which further may turn affect their aims or purposes to perform with