The Study on the Relationship between University Faculties’ Job Stress and Organizational Commitment in China

Abstract

With the global evolution of knowledge competition, university faculties play an important role in the development of knowledge and technology in colleges and universities, and multiple job responsibilities made faculty’s job suffering from more demanding and stressful. University faculties are the backbone of the university, and high faculty turnover rate has detrimental effects on the development of university. This research obtain 209 questionnaires from university faculties of Zhejiang province, and the relationship among job stress, job satisfaction, job engagement and organizational commitment is analyzed by structural equation model system. The results show that the job stress of the university faculties has positive direct effect on the job satisfaction, but also has the negative indirect effect on the job satisfaction. The job engagement has positive direct effect on the job satisfaction. All of the job stress, job engagement and the job satisfaction have the effect on organizational commitment, job satisfaction has positive direct effect, job stress has a positive indirect effect, and job engagement has a positive direct effect indirect effect.