Matoka, Chacha Alfred
(2020)
Effects of Perceived Psychological Contract Breach on Organizational Commitment of Public Universities Academic Staff in Tanzania.
["eprint_fieldopt_thesis_type_phd" not defined] thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.
Abstract
The study sought to determine the effects of perceived psychological contract breach on organizational commitment of public universities’ academic staff in Tanzania. The specific objectives were; to determine whether perceived psychological contract breach affect organizational commitment, whether perceived psychological contract breach affect affective organisational commitment, whether perceived psychological contract breach affect continuance organizational commitment, whether perceived psychological contract breach affect normative organisational commitment and whether after controlling the effects of demographic factors such as age, education, gender, tenure and academic rank perceived psychological contract breach still affect the university’s academic staff’s organisational commitment. A cross-sectional survey was carried out on a sample of 187 academic staff from Tanzania public universities. Descriptive statistics, correlation, linear and multiple linear regression analysis techniques were applied. The study found that perceived psychological contract breach significantly negatively affected organizational commitment and its dimensions namely affective, continuance and normative. For the demographics, regression results shows revealed that psychological contract breach significantly and negatively had the power to affect organizational commitment with a combination of age, marital status and tenure. It is recommended that universities management should make sure that all promises to newly recruited academic staff are fulfilled. In addition, strategies to motivate married couples and their families may help to make academic staff more committed. Young academic staff should be motivated by further training, being engaged in research and consultancy while the older ones should be guaranteed their tenure and good pay.
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