Probe into College Faculty’s Cognition of Job Contents :A Psychological Contract Perspective Based on K University

• Main Authors: Jui-Chang Lin, 林睿昶
• Other Authors: Chi-Rung Fu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10155004100446786838

碩士 === 開南管理學院 === 企業管理研究所 === 93 === In recent years, the number of student in university is increasing in Taiwan. The role of university faculty becomes more and more important. Since Argyris mentioned the concept of psychological contract at 1960, there were more and more researchers conducted studies within this field. The difference between psychological contract and the employment contract is that the psychological contract is based on a subjective viewpoint of the individual, rather than a mutual agreement between employees and the employer. The purpose of the study is to evaluate how university faculties perceived about the job content by the viewpoint of psychological contract, and to investigate how university faculties’ personal characteristics were related to these perceptions. This study used a sample of 112 faculties at a university on the northern Taiwan. By using SPSS 10.0, statistical software for Windows, the study revealed that university faculties’ perception about the job content in teaching and service were significantly correlated. However, the other job category, research, was not related the previous variables. More than this, the research also suggested that some personal characteristics, such as gender, age, and marriage, were found to be related to their perceptions about job contents. Such findings may serve as an important reference for the educators, policy makers, and researchers while conducting further study. However, the study was also limited by its sample and research method selections. As the research was based on the sample selected from only one university, it may not suitable to be generalized to other settings. The questionnaire type research also limited the explanination of the research findings in a general way. Aqualitative type of research may be conducted to obtain a more specific conclusion.