Conscientiousness and Motivator Factors: Can They Contribute to Each Other Among Teachers from Technical and Vocational Education and Training of Nepal?

Abstract

The conscientiousness and motivator factors are the fundamental concerns of the organizational behavior among Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) school settings. Taking into account, this study intends to assess the level and examine the influences between conscientiousness and motivator factors among TVET teachers. For these purposes, this study employed the cross-sectional survey design and collected information via a questionnaire from 302 TVET teachers under different clusters. Then, the information was analyzed via descriptive and inferential (e.g. correlation and regression analysis) statistics and further discussed the obtained results by incorporating the social capital theory. This study explored the high conscientiousness and moderate level of motivator factors, and the positive correlation between them among teachers. Furthermore, this study confirms the relationship between conscientiousness and motivator factors as elucidated as in the theory of big five factors as its implication part in the context of TVET teachers in Nepal.