Women Faculty Interpersonal Communication: Its Characteristics And Application In Their Career Development

Through study on 218 women teachers of H college via questionnaires and case interview in March, 2007, this study illustrates characteristics of this group's interpersonal interaction, exhibits their value orientation and social psychology, analyzes numerous elements effecting their interaction and probes into the relation between their interpersonal interaction and teacher career's development.This thesis consists of five parts. The first part illustrates this study's purpose, significance, current situation, content and methodology. The second part exhibits characteristics of university women teachers' interpersonal interaction from such aspects as: interaction amount, frequency of interaction, channel and place of interaction, content of interaction, feature and personality of interaction objects. The characteristics include: women teachers have limited interaction amount; interaction place is mainly around their own department; they prefer to communicate with their colleagues who share similar "preference, specialty and character"; they have better evaluation on their colleagues' personality; they prefer to have face to face communication with their colleagues and share more extensive topics; they have narrower topics when they talk to their superiors and subordinates The third part analyzes the cognition of university women teachers' interpersonal interaction from interaction's self cognition, cognition about others' interaction and interaction's value judge. It finds: women teachers have cognition deviation with different degrees; they prefer to judge others with their first impression and lack objective judgment; their interpersonal interaction has obscure value orientation. The fourth part is mainly about bewilderment in university women teachers' interpersonal interaction. The bewilderment is focused on interaction inferiority, interaction envy and interaction suspicion. The fifth part reveals the relation between interpersonal interaction and career development through case interview. It concludes that interpersonal interaction and career development supplement each other. In other words, interpersonal interaction improves career development meanwhile career development lubricates interpersonal interaction.