This research focuses to explore the factors affecting the faculty members’ job satisfaction and the influence that the campus/division head has upon these factors in a Pakistani public university. To conduct the research qualitative method has been used. The selected public university has 13 campuses/divisions. Twenty-six faculty members, two from each campus/division, who had at least three years of working experience with the present head (leader) in the current campus/division have been interviewed. The semi-structured type of qualitative interview was adopted to generate comprehensive data. ‘Content analysis’ was employed to analyze the data. A range of factors was revealed from the data that were affecting the job satisfaction of faculty members. Six main themes have been developed and the identified factors are collated under these themes. The major themes include institutional factors, leader-related factors, colleague-related factors, student-related factors, personal factors, and job-related factors. The faculty job satisfaction factors related to the institution, leader, and job are influenced by the leader, whereas factors related to colleagues, students, and faculty themselves are not influenced by the leader. Some suggestions for the practice, policy, and future researchers are presented.

Keywords: Job Satisfaction, Leader’s Influence, Public University Context.