Incentive Preferences Of Foreign Teachers, The Satisfaction Of The Incentive System And The Job Satisfaction Of Empirical Research

There are more and more foreigners coming to teach in China. They are not only teaching in universities and middle schools, but also teaching in kinder gardens. However, there are not many studies on the management of foreign teachers. And there is no study on incentive preference of foreign teachers, their satisfaction of incentive systems or their job satisfaction. However, it's important to find out how to motive foreign teachers in order to improve their performance and efficiency.Based on the study of foreign teachers in some colleges and universities in Fujian province, this paper is to explore incentive preference of foreign teachers, to explore their satisfaction of incentive systems and their job satisfaction. SPSS13.0 is used to analysis the data collected by a survey. The results are as follows: (1)Foreign teachers attach great importance to the motivators but they are not satisfied with most of them. The top five of the most preferred motivators for foreign teachers are good relationship with students and colleagues, appropriate teaching hours, harmonious working atmosphere, reasonable and complete contract and a harmonious professional relationship. The top five of most dissatisfied motivators for foreign teachers are training opportunities, excellent teachers' assessment system, reasonable regulations, receive recognition and awards, effective administrative communication. (2)The majority of foreign teachers think the overall satisfaction as "very satisfied" or "satisfied". The more satisfied with incentive systems the foreign teachers are, the more satisfaction with the overall job they will be. (3) The personal attributions, in addition to marital status, the rest of personal attributions such as gender, age, the region they come from, education, salary, the nature of the school, how long they have been a teacher, different position, whether taught before coming to China have significant influence on the motivator preference. It can be said that the personal attributions have significant influence on the motivator preference. As foreign teachers and other staff have different characteristics, several different subjects have been added to this study, such as the region they come from and whether taught before coming to China. The results show that these factors also have important influence on motivator preference. This is one of innovations of this study. (4)Personal attributes, in addition to how long they have been a teacher and their position, have significant influence on satisfaction of incentive systems. (5)Personal attributions (only ages) have significant influence on job satisfaction.Then, the following six methods have been forward to improve foreign teacher's performance: establishing reasonable regulations, creating a harmonious work atmosphere, strengthening the communication between foreign teachers and other faculties, providing a good working environment and awarding by physical rewards.