研究型大学青年教师职业成长影响机制:人与环境匹配的中介作用

The Influence Mechanism of Career Growth of Young Faculty in Research Universities:The Mediation Effect of Person-Environment Fit

基于1013份研究型大学35岁及以下青年教师职业成长的调查数据,结合现有关于人与环境匹配理论及大学教师学术职业发展的研究,分析了个人特征、组织环境对研究型大学青年教师职业成长的影响路径,并探索人与环境匹配在其中的中介作用。研究发现:个人特征中的性别、身份特征、国际留学经历以及工作投入,组织环境中的宏观环境(包括高校层级和类型、学缘关系)、中观环境(包括组织支持、学术评价制度)显著影响研究型大学青年教师的职业成长,人与环境匹配在其中具有完全或部分中介效应。进一步讨论了身份认同对青年教师职业成长的增益,非科研投入对青年教师职业成长的损耗,以及"第一学历歧视"是否合理等问题。上述发现验证了人与环境匹配理论在研究型大学青年教师职业成长影响机制研究中的适切性,并证实了良好的组织环境对于青年教师职业成长的积极作用。

Based on the data of 1013 questionnaires on the career growth of young faculty in research universities,and combing current study on the theory of person-environment fit and academic career development of faculty,this research analyzes the influence path of personal characteristics and organizational environment on career growth of young faculty in research universities,and explores the mediating role of person-environment fit.The major findings are as follows:Personal characteristics such as gender,identity,international study abroad experience,and work engagement have significant influences on young faculty’s career growth.Organizational environment includes macro environment(including university prestige and type,academic relationships)and meso environment(including organizational support,academic evaluation system),which have significant influences on young faculty’s career growth.Moreover,person-environment fit has a complete and partial mediating effect.This research further discussed the gains of identity and the loss of non-research activities engagement to the young faculty’s career growth,and the questioning of the rationality of"first degree discrimination".The above findings verify the applicability of the theory of person-environment fit in the research of young faculty’s career growth in research universities,and confirm the positive effect of a good environment on the young faculty’s career growth.