Job Satisfaction of Women Entrepreneurs with Special Reference to Self Help Groups of Vellore District

Abstract

Entrepreneurs job satisfaction has been the topics of a great amount of behavioral research. Several theorists have suggested that one or the other may be related to organizational behaviors of entrepreneurs. This longitudinal study examines the Socio Economic factors influencing job satisfaction of 100 women-owned businesses of SHGs of Vellore district of Tamilnadu. This study is an attempt to examine the impact of job satisfaction of SHGs on the development of women entrepreneurs in Vellore Block, which has strong agriculture base. Therefore in this study it has been hypotheses that there is no significant relationship between age, educational qualification, monthly income and Level of job satisfaction. But it has been found that there is relationship between age and level of satisfaction. Satisfaction level is greater among all the age group of women entrepreneurs. In addition to the above findings it found that there exists no relationship between Educational Qualification and level of satisfaction. Satisfaction level is less among the women entrepreneurs irrespective of qualification. In further it is also found that there is relationship between monthly earnings and level of satisfaction and it is evident from the analysis that satisfaction levels of women entrepreneurs get increased automatically when their income level is increased.