Abstract

• The purpose of the study is to investigate the relationship between work values and job involvement of senior teachers in Kyonpyaw Township, Ayeyarwady Region. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used in this study. As focused on census method, total number of 190 senior teachers in Kyonpyaw Township participated. Wu et. al.’s Work Values Inventory (1996) and Agarwala’s five dimensions of Job Involvement (1978) were based in this study. Descriptive Statistics, Oneway ANOVA, Independent Samples t test and Pearson Correlation were used to analyze the data. Level of work values of senior teachers was high. There were no significant differences in the levels of work values of senior teachers according to their socio-demographic factors. Level of job involvement of senior teachers was moderate. There was a significant difference in the level of job involvement of senior teachers grouped by race (t=2.090, df=136.247, p<.05). There were no significant differences in other factors. The finding showed moderate level of positive significant relationship between work values and job involvement.