The Relationship between Job Characteristics, Job Involvement, and Pretraining Self-efficacy: An Empirical Study on the Teachers of the Elementary Schools in the Kaohsiung County Remote Area and the Non-metropolitan Cities

• Main Authors: I-Fen Sun, 孫憶芬
• Other Authors: Huey-Ming Tzeng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00543495238017829748

碩士 === 義守大學 === 管理科學研究所 === 90 === This exploratory study investigated the relationship between teachers’ perceptions on demographic characteristics, job characteristics, job involvement and pretraining self-efficacy. We used a cross-sectional, quantitative research design. Teachers working for the elementary schools located in the Kaohsiung County Remote Area were the target population and surveyed. In addition, teachers from three conveniently sampled elementary schools located in three non-metropolitan cities were included and compared with the ones working in the remote area. A total of 613 questionnaires were disseminated to all the teachers and collected through the principals of the sampled schools. Subjects participated in this project voluntarily and anonymously. There were a total of 375 returned questionnaires, which resulted in a response rate of 61.2%. Most of the items included in the questionnaire were adopted from the other researchers’ work. Three self-efficacy items were developed in this project. This study utilized one-way ANOVA, t-tests and Pearson correlation analyses. Results demonstrated that there were only few differences in the elementary school teachers’ perceptions, between the ones working in the Kaohsiung County Remote Area and the ones in three non-metropolitan cities. As a result, these two sets of subjects were combined and used in the data analyses. The aspects of job characteristics were statistically-significantly correlated with job involvement. Job involvement was correlated with pretraining self-efficacy. The implication of these research findings was discussed. Some suggestions were made toward enhancing human resource planning for elementary school teachers for the purposes of increasing their teaching quality.