Over the past few years, with the increase of child care institutions, the demand on the qualitative child care environment has also increased. This study is focused on how to effectively support the directors of the child care institutions, who are c...
Over the past few years, with the increase of child care institutions, the demand on the qualitative child care environment has also increased. This study is focused on how to effectively support the directors of the child care institutions, who are critical resources to upgrade their qualitative service, by reviewing the factors effecting their job satisfaction and burnout at work.
The subjects of this research are 345 directors of child care institutions in Seoul metropolitan area and Chungchung province and they are questioned on the perception of the child care environment, job satisfaction and burn-out. SPSS Win 14.0 was used for data analysis and Cronbach's α was used for the consistency test. Frequency analysis was used for the characteristics of recipients and their institutions. Also, the child care environment at work and job satisfaction and the degree of the burn-out were analyzed using average and standard deviation. t test and f test were used to study how the groups are different in the child care environment, job satisfaction and the burnout. Scheffe test was used for post-hoc analysis. To study child care environment's influence on the job satisfaction and burn-out, dummy variables were created and then Stepwise Multiple regression analysis, Hierarchical multivariate regression analysis, used for the categorical variables.
This research can be summarized as below;
First, the study on how differently each group perceives job satisfaction in general shows that career, monthly salary, working hours, and the size of the institution are the influential factors to the job satisfaction of the directions. Burnout is more perceived from directors with more experienced, more salary, more working hours, and working at a larger institutions. And more from single directors than married directors.
Second, the financial factor has the greatest influence on job satisfaction of directors, which is followed by home background, leadership, facility, and the specialty of teachers. Meanwhile, the sub factors are job itself, work environment, human relationship and compensation. Among environmental factors, finance is the most influential in the job itself, followed by home background and facility. And then, the work environment is affected most by directors' leadership, and then finance and the child care policy. Human relationship is also affected by owners' leadership, and then facility, home background, the specialty of teachers and health. Lastly, the biggest influence of child care environment on compensation is finance, followed by security. As a result, finance has great influence on the job satisfaction of the directors.
Third, home background is the strongest factor causing directors' burn-out, followed by the specialty of teachers, finance, the specialty of directors and the qualification of teachers. Meanwhile, the sub factors of burn-out are emotional exhaustion, low job satisfaction and depersonalization. Among those factors, emotional exhaustion is affected by home background and finance; low job satisfaction is affected by finance, directors' leadership, family background, community and teachers' specialty; Lastly, depersonalization is affected by directors' specialty, teachers' specialty, finance, home background, director's leadership and their health.