A Research On The Young Teacher’s Job Pressure Of Chinese Private University

Today, a fierce competition is increasing in higher education. And for the privateuniversities, after going through the first stage in which the scale determines the survival, theywill face even harder second startup—in the stage, they highlight on quality, credit, runningfeatures and diversified development models. In these universities, the young teachers playthe role of main force; however, because of the special management system, feasiblepersonnel system, strict enterprise management approaches and market based salary system,they are tested physically and psychologically, such as long term overwork, pressing workschedule, various inspections and the attendance of students’ activities. In such complicatedworking environments, inevitably, the different kinds of negative emotions will not only haveeffect on a healthy growth of young teachers’ groups but block up a benign teaching course.In this thesis, literature survey and questionnaire method are adopted to analyze the jobpressure of281teachers in5universities in Xi’an and1university in Zhejiang province.Through statistical analysis, the finding is that firstly,79teachers suffer from medium degreepressure, accounting for28.1%of the total;47are stuck with severe degree pressure whichtakes up16.7%of the total. The sum of the two makes up the44.8%of the total. In otherwords, in the private universities, nearly half young teachers suppose that they are put onmuch or too much job pressure and objectively, the situation is significant. Secondly, thereare several factors affecting job pressure; and they are the personal factor, universitymanagement factor, professional development factor, job achievement factor and studentfactor.To reduce the job pressure, the thesis put forward five practicable strategies: first, realizethe balance between business managers and educators; second, strengthen human-basedmanagement and lighten the burden on teachers; third, enrich the young teachers’ cultural lifeand safeguard their legal rights and interests; fourth, establish service organizations to helpyoung teachers keep psychological health; last, make young teachers concern with their ownhealth and hold positive attitude.