Social Adjustment and Job Performance of College Teachers:An Analytical Study

The aim of present research is to evaluate the disparity among social adjustment and job performance of college teachers on the basis of gender and to examine the effect of social adjustment on job performance. In this exploratory research three hypotheses were formulated to guide the present study. The subjects of present study were 108 college teachers both public and private who were administered two research instruments namely Social Adjustment Inventory & Job Performance Scale developed by R. C. Deva (2011) & Goodman and Svyantek's (1999) respectively to report collected data and analysis was conducted by SPSS 21 software employing independent t-test and regression analysis at .05 & .01 level of significance. The results of the analysis showed social adjustment and job performance of college teachers don't differ significantly on the basis of gender, also results reveal a significant positive relationship between social adjustment and job performance. Further results revealed social adjustment significantly predicts job performance with a magnitude of 73.3% of variance. Following these conclusions social adjustment of the college teachers must be studied comprehensively, so that their performance gets enhanced.