Motivation, Performance and Satisfaction Among University Teachers: Comparing Public and Private Sectors in Pakistan and Malaysia

The research aims to determine the difference in performance, achievement motivation and job satisfaction of teaching faculties of selected private and public sector higher educational institutions of Pakistan and Malaysia, which are countries representing South/South-East Asia in cross-cultural perspective. The Heads of the Department were requested to rate the performance of their teaching faculty on University Teacher's Evaluation Rating Questionnaire. Then two senior and regular teachers from each teaching faculty of the department completed Personal Information Form following Costello Achievement Motivation Scale and Job Satisfaction Scale. The results indicate that when comparison was made separately between private and public higher educational institutions of Pakistan and Malaysia, the achievement motivation of teaching faculties of Malaysian private and public sector is higher than that of Pakistan. Similarly, the performance of public sector Malaysian teaching faculties seems to be better than public sector Pakistani faculties, although their evaluation mean score fall in the good range.