Paper Title
A Study of Personal Factors Affecting Job Satisfaction of Faculty Members in Private Engineering Colleges in West Bengal

Abstract
Comprehensive review of literature has revealed that there has been countless numbers of research done on the level of job satisfaction of employees in industry, corporate offices, service sectors and other professionals but not of faculty members working in private Engineering Colleges in West Bengal. Faculty members are the critical human resource element of any Government, Government-aided or private Colleges anywhere in the world. Hence, it is of paramount importance for the management to know the overall job satisfaction level of the faculty members since it will affect the performance of their respective Colleges. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship of some selected personal factors namely age, gender, marital status on the overall job satisfaction of the faculty members of the private Engineering Colleges under Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal. The study used a survey questionnaire responded by 526 faculty members from 69 randomly selected Engineering Colleges. The data are analysed through Chi-Square Test and Test for equality of proportion. The findings of the study reveal that statistically, significant differences exist in the level of job satisfaction with regard to age, gender, marital status. The faculty members having age of 55 years and above have the highest job satisfaction and the age group of 30-35 years are the least satisfied. The job satisfaction of male faculty members is slightly higher as compared to female counterpart. Married teachers are also more satisfied than unmarried teachers. It is also observed that the majority 243 (46.19 %) of the faculty members are moderately satisfied and 202 (38.40%) are very satisfied with the jobs in their respective Colleges, whereas only 11 (2.07%) are dissatisfied Keywords - Job Satisfaction, Personal Factors, Faculty Members, private Engineering Colleges.