Teacher motivation to work in universities – the example of the National Defence University

The aim of this article is to emphasize the importance of teacher motivation to work. I was interested in discovering key factors which contribute to teacher motivation to work at university, to doing research, to teaching and doing work of an organizational nature among civilian, officers and reserve or retired officers. It was found very important due to influence of motivation on, e.g. quality of school education or science researches. In order to indicate the main motivating factors to work in the university I used the results of diagnostic survey which was done among a representative research sample at the National Defence University (NDU) in Warsaw.