Semantic Reconstruction of Teachers’ Perceptions of their Jobs in Babol

Human resources are the main factors of development in every organization. Those are more important in education system, because this institution trains skilled human resources for other organizations. Therefore, education needs interested people to be more effective in the education system. If a society wants to achieve industry and technology development it should pay attention to different occupational groups of the society, especially teachers. Hence the purpose of this study is to reconstruct female teachers’ semantic understanding of their jobs in Babol. Grounded theory was used to conduct the study. The participants in the research were female teachers in Babol (Mazandaran, Iran) in 2021. Through purposive sampling, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 people, which continued until the saturation of data. The theoretical implementation and coding of the text of the interviews led to the extraction of eight categories: interest, preservation of human dignity, satisfaction, lack of respect for rights, appropriate feedback, structural problems, values, unchangeable educational system, high social values, low material values. Contrary to popular belief, teachers considered their jobs to be respectable and of high social value, and at the same time dissatisfied with financial issues and lack of facilities and equipment. Accordingly, the core category was “contentious job satisfaction and burnout due to anomic structure”. Due to the emergence of the core category, it is necessary for education managers to implement programs to promote and improve job motivation and a sense of self-efficacy.