The Study On Work Values And The Relationship Between Work Values And Work Engagement Of University Teachers' On The Basis Of Academic Profession

With the development of academic vocational, our academic professional development and cultivation of professional psychological qualities gets extensive concern. In this context, based on an academic career for angle of view, the research through the questionnaire survey and depth interview of university teachers, reviewed the structure of university teachers' work values and measuring tools establishment, discussed the university teachers' work values characteristics, and explored the relationship between university teachers' work values and work engagement. The results are as follows :1. Based on an academic career for angle of view , university teachers' work values is a multi-dimensioned systematic structure, composed of 5 factors, which include the welfare and health, improvement and development, knowledge and research, educational and example, influence and service.2. The self edited University Teachers' Work Values Scale possess good index of psychometrics and are befitting to the measurement instrument to measure university teachers' work values.3. The order of rating of all dimensions given by university teachers is::educational and example, knowledge and research, the welfare and health, influence and service, improvement and development.4. The demographic variables had significant influences on university teachers' work values, such as gender, age, education and school type, discipline, duties and expertise, etc.5. There are definite relations between university teachers' work values and work engagement; university teachers' work values are the predictors of interpersonal promotion, university teachers' background variables act as regulatory role on the work values predicting work engagement.