Teacher compensation, job satisfaction and career development in Chinese universities

Teachers are the core force of higher education development, the main force of school personnel training, and the main participating force of scientific research and social service.Teacher compensation and welfare, job satisfaction and career development of college teachers directly affect the quality of education and the level of running a college.The main purpose of this study is to determine the compensation and welfare, job satisfaction and career development of Chinese university teachers.Specifically, the compensation level of teachers is determined from three aspects: basic salary and performance reward, social welfare and school welfare, and achievement.The job satisfaction of college teachers is determined from three aspects: work feeling, organizational climate and interpersonal relationship.The present situation and possible problems or reasons of college teachers' career development are determined from three aspects: professional development, training guidance and promotion of professional titles.Finally, the relationship between teacher compensation, job satisfaction and career development are determined, the teacher develop plan is proposed.In this study, descriptive research methods were used to conduct a questionnaire survey on teachers in selected universities.The survey data were statistically analyzed the following from the aspects of sex, age, educational background and working years; salary and performance reward from national policies, titles and positions, working years, performance appraisal, and so on; the social and school benefits from medical insurance, pension insurance, children's education, and so on; professional development from teaching ability and scientific research atmosphere; training guidance and professional title promotion from vocational training, professional planning, professional title review; work feeling, organizational climate and interpersonal relationship from the aspects of work pressure, work enthusiasm, personal development and colleague relationship.This study used SPSS software to process and analyze 425 responses as regards the impact of teacher compensation, job satisfaction and teacher career development on Chinese university teachers.Results of the study revealed that teacher compensation and career development are the main factors affecting the job satisfaction of university teachers.First of all, the more satisfied the teacher's compensation, Wang, J.122 Consortia Academia Publishing (A partner of CollabWritive Publishing House) the higher the teacher's job satisfaction; The higher the compensation of teachers, the better the career development planning of teachers.The better the teacher's career development, the faster the personal promotion, the more performance reward, the more teacher's compensation, the higher the job satisfaction; When the teacher's career development is better, he or she will have more energy and enthusiasm to devote to the work, and can achieve greater achievements, thus increasing his or her personal income.As the career development becomes better and better, the individual gets promoted, and the job satisfaction increases accordingly.Through the research, a feasible teacher development Plan is proposed to provide support for university administrators to promote teacher team construction.