Abstract: Abstract: With the importance of the researchers has become increasingly prominent, how to play the role of researchers effectively has become an important issue in the organization. This paper research the role of the impact of work engagement between career growth and job performance based on 305 researchers samples. The result show that: (1) career goal progress, career capacity development and organizational reward growth have significant impact on the work engagement, career capacity development and organizational reward growth do interaction role on work engagement; (2) career capacity development and organizational rewards growth have a positive direct impact on task performance and contextual; (3) work engagement had a significant positive impact on task performance and contextual performance, and play a significant intermediary role in the relationship between career growth and job performance; (4) age moderator not only career goal progress and work engagement but also between organizational reward growth and contextual performance.

Key words: researchers, career growth, work engagement, task performance, contextual performance