Exploring Psychological Contract Breach of Indonesian Academics

DOI

10.2991/aicmar-18.2019.25How to use a DOI?

Keywords

psychological contract breach; Indonesian academics

Abstract

This paper examines Indonesian academics perceptions on their psychological contract breaches (PCB) and the effects of PCB on their employment relationships and contributions toward the organizations. This is a qualitative exploratory study. In-depth interviews on 40 respondents in four public and private universities in Manado city and content analysis were conducted to explore the phenomenon of psychological contract breach. Findings indicate that academics perceived contract breach when (1) they are not appointed in structural position (hierarchical organizational structure), (2) they are being treated unfairly (unfair access to attend seminars, workshops and trainings paid by their university or faculty, to have projects which can contribute additional income to academics, and to be appointed as thesis supervisors or examiners), (3) lack of support from their employers in helping them to pursue their career advancement (for instances, employers signing their career advancement paper), giving information about opportunities to pursue their further studies including permitting and signing their studies document/application paper, (4) overlapping tasks and lack employer’s assertiveness in their leaderships. Negative consequences are they tend to be disappointed and thus they are not motivated to work productively and effectively, not committed or devoted to their employers and organizations.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Linda Lambey
AU  - Herman Karamoy
AU  - Robert Lambey
AU  - Lintje Kalangi
PY  - 2019/02
DA  - 2019/02
TI  - Exploring Psychological Contract Breach of Indonesian Academics
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Management Research (AICMaR 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 112
EP  - 115
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aicmar-18.2019.25
DO  - 10.2991/aicmar-18.2019.25
ID  - Lambey2019/02
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