ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION AS A COMPONENT OF JOB SATISFACTION FOR ACADEMIC STAFF
Subject. Academic staff are one of the most important components of the innovative potential of the Russian national economy. The development of the work potential of academic staff is impossible without being satisfied with working conditions and results. The job satisfaction of academic staff is a complex and multi-aspect subject of study, therefore the use of classical methods for the assessment of industrial staff may provide inaccurate assessment or not reveal enough the changes that have to be made to the motivation system. Objectives. The goal of this work was to form and test the multi-aspect methodology for the assessment of the job satisfaction of academic staff. To achieve this goal, we had to perform the following tasks: to analyse the methods for the assessment of job satisfaction; to study the significant factors of the work of academic staff; select and modify the basic method for the assessment of the job satisfaction of academic staff taking into account work related factors that are of significance for academic staff, and to perform a statistical verification of the modified method for the assessment of job satisfaction. Methods. A wide range of methods for the multi-aspect and general assessment of job satisfaction were analysed in order to form a new method for the assessment of job satisfaction. To test the new method and the reliability of a new work factor being included in the basic method, we used statistical methods: we verified the significance of the coefficients of the correlation of the new factor to total satisfaction with other factors of the assessment system; we determined the rank of the new factor, and we compared average multi-aspect traditional and modified satisfaction assessment methods with the assessment according to the general (not limited by factors) method for the assessment of satisfaction. Conclusions. The suggested modification of the international method for the assessment of job satisfaction is oriented towards the factors that are significant for academic staff. The significance of academic communication is greater than a number of factors for the traditional assessment of academic employees. The job satisfaction of academic staff must be increased.