Abstract:
This research aimed to study the factors affecting the promotion mobility of teachers
which will lead to increase the trend in upward mobility among teachers at rural area
university in Sri Lanka.
This research attempted to examine the university teachers whether SEUSL and
Colombo are depending on job related characteristics and personal characteristics.
It is theoretically argued that promotion mobility depend upon Job Satisfaction (JS).
Frozenness(FR), Organizational CommitmentOC), Job InvoIvement(JI), Risk
Taking(RT) and Stress(S). An empirical study was conducted to test whether these 6
variables are significantly associated with promotion mobility among university
teachers in Sri Lanka. The study involved 178 academic staffs who were selected from
SEUSL and University of Colombo. The results indicated that first 5 variables were not
associated with pro mobility significantly at SEUSL, suggesting that pro mobility is
independent of JS, FR. OC, JI and RT and alt variables except frozenness were not
associated with P significantly at University of Colombo. Suggesting that promotion
is independent of JS, OC. J I, RJ and S.
These findings have to be considered when creating an atmosphere for enhancing Pro
mobility of teachers in rural areas of the universities in Sri Lanka. These variables
have to be built into the scheme of Pro mobility. So that they may be the deciding
factors of future Pro mobility rather than a present snap- shot.
