THE EFFECT OF INNOVATION TRAINING ON TEACHER COMPETENCE: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF WORK ENGAGEMENT AND PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT
In order to explore the current situation and relationship between innovation training, work engagement, perceived
organizational support and teacher competence in Chinese universities, and to construct a mechanism for
innovation training, work engagement, and perceived organizational support to promote teacher competence, this
study took university teachers in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China, as the object of the study, and conducted
a questionnaire survey on 260 university teachers through simple random sampling and snowball sampling
methods. The results of structural equation modeling show that innovation training is positively related to work
engagement, perceived organizational support and teacher competence, work engagement is positively related to
teacher competence, perceived organizational support is positively related to teacher competence, and work
engagement and perceived organizational support mediate between innovation training and teacher competence.
At the same time, this study proves that: we can improve teacher competence by improving innovation training,
work engagement and perceived organizational support. This study enriches the theoretical research in the field
of teacher competence, provides management suggestions for human resource managers in universities on how to
improve teacher competence to enhance work performance, and promotes the development of education, economy
and society in Yunnan Province.
Innovation Training, Teacher Competence, Work Engagement, Perceived Organizational Support, China.