International Journal of Research Studies in Management
CollabWritive Special Issue
2023 Volume 11 Issue 4
Available Online: 15 August 2023
Author/s:
Li, Xin
Graduate School, Lyceum of the Philippines University – Batangas, Philippines (lixin199304@126.com)
Liao Cheng University, China
Abstract:
The study aimed to examine the job demands, work motivation and work engagement among college teachers in Shandong province in China and developed a Work engagement model for teachers. Job demands are the factors that require a lot of physical and mental effort in the job and are associated with specific physical and psychological costs, such as work stress, role conflict, emotional exhaustion, and poor working environment conditions. Work motivation is an internal drive that individuals are willing to do what they think is important and valuable and strive to achieve perfection. Work engagement describes employees’ ability to bring their full capacity to solving problems, connecting with people, and developing innovative services. The study made use of descriptive research design as it describes the variables understudy. The participants of the study were the 338 teaching staff of selected 5 well-known universities in Shandong Province: Shandong University, Ocean University of China, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, University of Jinan, Liaocheng University. The study used an adapted questionnaire as the data gathering instrument. Based from the results, job demands are the physical, psychological, and organizational aspects of a job that require physical or mental effort and can tax or exceed an employee’s resources and agreed to be experienced by the respondents. The respondents are positively motivated as to intrinsic and extrinsic in their work. Teachers are highly engaged in their work and workplace as to vigor, dedication and absorption. There is a high significant relationship between job demands, work motivation and work engagement and thus the relationship between job demands, work motivation, and work engagement is complex and can be influenced by a number of factors. A proposed work engagement model was proposed to improve employee productivity and performance.
Keywords: job demands, work motivation, work engagement
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrsm.2023.1034
Cite this article:
Li, X. (2023). Job demands, work motivation and work engagement among college teachers in Shan Dong Province: Inputs to work engagement model. International Journal of Research Studies in Management, 11(4), 15-25. https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrsm.2023.1034