Work Stress, Pay Satisfaction, Psychological Empowerment and Organisational Commitment Among Academic Staff

Authors

  • Amer Darus School of Business Management Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
  • Farah Lina Azizan School of Business Management Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
  • Fais Ahmad School of Business Management Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32890/ijms2016.23.1.4

Keywords:

Organisational Commitment, Work Stress, Pay Satisfaction, Psychological Empowerment

Abstract

This study investigated the mediating effect of psychological empowerment on the relationship between work stress, pay satisfaction, and organisational commitment among academic staff in public universities. A total number of 297 academics responded to this study and Statistical Package Software for Social Science (SPSS) Version 21.0 was used to analyse the collected data. The results indicated that work stress is associated with organisational commitment, whereas pay satisfaction, psychological empowerment, and organisational commitment have significant relationships with each other. Furthermore, multiple regression analysis revealed that psychological empowerment partially mediated on the relationship between pay satisfaction and organisational commitment. It is recommended that future research could further extend by including non-academic staff as well.
 
Keywords: Organisational Commitment, Work Stress, Pay Satisfaction, Psychological Empowerment

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Adebiyi, D. R. (2013). Occupational stress among academic staff of Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti. European Scientific Journal, 9(4), 202–208.

Ashari, H., Ahmad, U. N. U., & Rahman, S. A. A. (2005). Organisational commitment among academicians: Its relationship with stress level. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

Ashforth, B., E. (1989). The experience of powerlessness in organisations. Organisational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 43, 207-242.

Awang, Z., & Ahmad, J. H. (2010). Modelling job satisfaction and work commitment among lecturers: A case of UiTM Kelantan. Proceedings of the Regional Conference on Statistical Sciences 2010 (RCSS’10), June 2010, 241-255.

Barkhuizen, N., Roodt, N., & Schutte, N. (2014). Talent management of academics: Balancing job demands and job resources. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 5(20), 2033-2038.

Baron, R. M., & Kenny, D. A. (1986). The Moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 1173-1182.

Bogler, R., & Somech, A. (2004). Influence of teacher empowerment on teachers’ organisational commitment, professional commitment and organisational citizenship behaviour in schools. Teaching and Teacher Education, 20, 277-289.

Bowen, D., & Lawler, E. (1992). The empowerment of service workers: What, why, how, and when. Sloan Management Review, 33(3), 31-39.

Carless, S. A. (2004). Does psychological empowerment mediate the relationship between psychological climate and job satisfaction? Journal of Business and Psychology, 18, 405-425. IJMS 23 (1), 51–72 (2016)

Cartwright, S., & Cooper, C. L. (2002). ASSET: The management guide. Manchester: Robertson Cooper Limited.

Chang, J., & Choi, J. (2007). The dynamic relation between organisational and professional commitment of highly educated research and development professional. The Journal of Social Psychology, 147(3), 299-315.

Chen, H. F., & Chen, Y. C. (2008). The impact of work redesign and psychological empowerment on organisational commitment in a changing environment: An example from Taiwan’s state-http://ijms.uum.edu.my owned enterprises. Public Personnel Management, 37(3), 279-302.

Chen, S., Lin, P., Lu, C., & Taso, C. (2007). The moderation effect of the strength on the relationship between employee commitment and job performance. Social Behaviour and Personality, 35(8), 1121-1138

Comm., C. L., & Mathaisel, D. F. X. (2003). A case study of the implications of faculty workload and compensation for improving academic quality. The International Journal of Educational Management, 17, 200-210.

Conger, J. A., &Kanungo, R. N. (1988). The empowerment process: Integration theory and practice. Academy of Management Journal, 13(3), 471-482.

Dee, J. R., Henkin A. B., & Duemer L. (2003). Structural antecedents and psychological correlates of teacher empowerment. Journal of Educational Administration, 41(3), 257-277.

Disch, J., Edwardson, S., & Adwan, J. (2004). Nursing faculty satisfaction with individual, institutional, and leadership factors. Journal of Professional Nursing, 20(5), 323-331.

Dulebohn, J. H., & Martocchio, J. J. (1998). Employee perceptions of the fairness of work group incentives pay plans. Journal of Management, 24(4), 469-488.

Fornes, S. L., & Rocco, T. S. (2004). Commitment elements reframed (antecedents and consequences) for organisational effectiveness. Florida International University, 19(3), 391-397.

French, J. R. P., Jr., Caplan, R. D., & Harrison, R. V. (1982).The mechanisms of job stress and strain. London: Wiley.

Freund, A. (2005). Commitment of job satisfaction as predictors of turnover intentions among welfare workers. Administration in Social Work, 29(2), 5-21.

Galletta, M., Portoghese, I., & Battistelli, A. (2011). Intrinsic motivation, job autonomy, and turnover intention in the Italian healthcare: The mediating role of affective commitment. Journal of Management Research, 3(2), 1-19. IJMS 23 (1), 51–72 (2016)

Gardner, D. G., van Dyne, L., & Pierce, J. L. (2004). The effects of pay level on organisation-based self-esteem and performance: A field study. Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology, 77, 307-322.

Gillespie, N. A., Walsh, M., Winefield, A. H., Dua, J., & Stough, C. (2001). Occupational stress in universities: Staff perceptions of the causes, consequences, and moderators of stress. Work and Stress, 15, 53-72.

Gkorezis, P., & Petridou, E. (2011). The impact of extrinsic rewards on http://ijms.uum.edu.my nurses’ psychological empowerment: The case of health care in Greece. Health Service Management Research, 24(2), 55-59.

Gupta, M., &Gehlawat, M. (2013). A study of the correlates of organisational commitment among secondary school teacher’s issues and ideas in education, 1,59–71.

Hackman, J. R., & Oldham, G. R. (1980). Development of the job diagnostic survey. Journal of Applied Psychology, 60,159-170.

Hadi, F., Zahra, I., Ismi, A. I., & Farhad, A. (2015). Relationship between quality of work life and organisational commitment among lecturers in a Malaysian public research university. The Social Science Journal, 52(1), 54-

Hafiz I., Iqra, A., Sadaf, C., & Azeem, M. (2014). Relationship between job satisfaction, job performance, attitude towards work, and organisational commitment. Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Management Journal, 2(2).

Hair, J. F., Black, W. C., Babin, B. J., & Anderson, R. E. (2010). Multivariate data analysis (7th ed). New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.

Heneman, H. G., & Judge, T. A. (2000). Incentives and motivation. In S. Rynes & B. Gerhart (Eds.), Compensation in organisations: Progress and prospects (pp. 61-103). San Francisco, CA: New Lexington Press.

Heneman, H. G., & Schwab, D. P. (1985). Pay satisfaction: Its multidimensional nature and measurement. International Journal of Psychology, 20, 129-141.

Ismail, N. (2012). Organisational commitment and job satisfaction among staff of higher learning education institutions in Kelantan. Unpublished Master Dissertation.Universiti Utara Malaysia.

Jain, K. K., Jabeen, F., Mishra, V., & Gupta, N. (2007). Job satisfaction as related to organisational climate and occupational stress: A case study of Indian Oil. International Review of Business Research Papers, 3(5), 193-208.

Jones, G. R. (1986). Socialization tactics, self-efficacy, and newcomer’s adjustments to organisations. Academy of Management Journal, 29, 262-279. IJMS 23 (1), 51–72 (2016)

Judd, C., M., & Kenny, D., A. (1981). Process analysis: Estimating mediation in treatment evaluations. Evaluation Review, 5, 602-619.

Kahn, R. L., Wolfe, D. M., Quinn, R. P., Snoek, J. D., & Rosenthal, R. A. (1964). Organisational stress: Studies in role conflict and ambiguity. New York: Wiley

Kelloway, E. K., & Barling, J. (1991). Job characteristics, role stress, and mental health. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 64, 291-304.

Khairuddin, S. M. H. S., & Makhbul, Z. M. (2011). Stress at the workplace and productivity: A pilot study on faculty administrators in a Malaysian Research University. 2nd International Conference on http://ijms.uum.edu.my Business and Economic Research (2nd ICBER).

Khany, R., & Tazik, K. (2015). On the relationship between psychological empowerment, trust, and Iranian EFL teacher’s job satisfaction: The case of secondary school teachers. Journal of Career Assessment, 1-18.

Krejcie, & Morgan (1970). Determining sample size for research activities. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 30, 607-610.

Krishna, Y. R. (2007). Psychological empowerment and organisational commitment. The Icfai Journal of Organisational Behavior, 6(4), 26-36.

Laschinger, H. K. S., & Havens, D. S. (1996) Staff nurse work empowerment and perceived control over nursing practice, work satisfaction and work effectiveness. Journal of Nursing Administration, 26, 27-35.

Laschinger, H. K., Wong, C., MacMahon, L., & Kaufmann, C. (1999). Leader behaviour impact on staff nurse empowerment, job tension, and work effectiveness. Journal of Nursing Administration, 29 (5) 28-39

Lawler, E. E. (1971). Pay and organisational effectiveness. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Lazarus, R. S. (1991). Emotion and adaptation. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Lee, A. N., & Nie, Y. (2014). Understanding teacher empowerment: Teacher’s perceptions of principal’s and immediate supervisor’s empowering behaviours, psychological empowerment and work-related outcomes. Teaching and Teacher Education, 41, 67-79.

Liu, A. M. M., Fellows, R., & Chiu, W. M. (2006). Work empowerment as an antecedent to organisational commitment in the Hong Kong quantity surveying profession. Surveying and Built Environment, 17(2), 63-72.

Lew, T. Y. (2011). Understanding the antecedents of affective organisational commitment and turnover intention of academics in Malaysia. African Journal of Business Management, 5(7), 2551-2562. IJMS 23 (1), 51–72 (2016)

Malik, M. E., Nawab, S., Naeem, B., & Danish, R. Q. (2010). Job satisfaction and organisational commitment of University Teachers in Public Sector of Pakistan. International Journal of Business and Management, 5(6), 17-26

McElroy, J. C. (2001). Managing workplace commitment by putting people first. Human Resources Management Review, 11, 327–335.

McShane, S. L., & Von Glinow, M. A. (2010). Organisational behaviour: Emerging knowledge and practice for the real world, (5th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. http://ijms.uum.edu.my

Meyer, J. P., & Allen, N. J. (1987). A longitudinal analysis of the early development and consequences of organisational commitment. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 19, 199-215.

Meyer, J. P., & Allen, N. J. (1991). A three-component conceptualization of organisational commitment. Human Resource Management Review, 1, 61-89.

Meyer, J. P., & Allen, N. J. (1997). Commitment in the workplace: Theory, research, and application. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Michael, O., Court, D., & Petal, P. (2009). Job stress and organisational commitment among mentoring coordinators. International Journal of Educational Management, 23(3), 266-288.

Milkovich, G. M., & Newman, J. M. (2004). Compensation (8thed.). Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin McGraw-Hill.

MoHE (2012). In Komoo, I., Azman, N., & Aziz, Y. F. A. Malaysian research universities and their performance indicators. Bulletin of Higher Education Research, 11, 5-7

Mustapha, N. (2013). The influence of financial reward on job satisfaction among academic staffs at public universities in Kelantan, Malaysia. International Journal of Business and Social Science, 4(3), 244-248

Nabila, A. A. (2008). The relationship between psychological empowerment and organisational commitment: A case study among employees in construction sector in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Unpublished Master Thesis, School of Business and Economic, UMS.

Newstrom, J. W., & Davis, K. (2002). Organisational behaviour. Human behaviour at work (11th ed.). Tata, New Delhi: Mcgraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited.

Nilufar, A., Abdullah, Z., Fie, D. Y. G., & Alam, S. S. (2009). A study of job stress on job satisfaction among university staff in Malaysia: Empirical study. European Journal of Social Sciences, 8(1), 121-131.

Noordin, F., & Jusoff, K. (2009). Levels of job satisfaction amongst Malaysian academic staff. Journal of Asian Social Science,5(5). IJMS 23 (1), 51–72 (2016)

Noraida, S. S. Z. A., Shaladdin, M. M., Fauziah, A. H., & Munir, A. M. S. (2010). Organisational commitment in Malaysian public sector. International Journal of Management Studies, 17(1), 107-128.

Obeng, K., & Ugboro, I. (2003). Organisational commitment among public transit employees: An assessment study. Journal of Transportation Research Forum, 57(2), 83-98.

O’Laughlin, E. M., & Bischoff, L. G. (2005). Balancing parenthood and academia: Work/family stress as influenced by gender and tenure status. Journal of Family Issues, 26(1), 79-106 http://ijms.uum.edu.my

Onn, C. Y. (2012). Antecedents of organisational commitment amongst academic staff of private universities in Malaysia. Master Thesis, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman.

Price, J. L., & Mueller, C. W. (1986). Handbook of organisational measurement. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger.

Purvanova, R. K., & Muros, J. P. (2010). Gender differences in burnout: A meta-analysis. Journal of Vocational Behaviour, 77, 168-185.

Selye, H, (1976). The stress of life. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Sheldon, M. E. (1971). Investments and involvements as mechanisms producing commitment to the organisation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 16,143-150.

Siddique, A., Aslam, H. D., Khan, M., & Fatima, U. (2011). Impact of academic leadership on faculty’s motivation, and organisational effectiveness in higher education system. International Journal of Business and Social Science, 2(8), 184-191.

Solomon, L., & Podgursky, M. (2001).The pros and cons of performance-based compensation.Milken Family Foundation, Pascadena.

Spreitzer, G. M. (1995). Psychological empowerment in the workplace: Dimensions, measurement, and validation. Academy of Management Journal, 38(5), 1442-1465.

Takleab, A. G., Takeuchi, R., & Taylor, M. S. (2005). Extending the chain of relationships among organisational justice, social exchange, and employee reactions: The role of contact violations. Academy of Management Journal, 48(1), 146-157.

Tella, C. O., Ayeni S. O., & Popoola (2007).Work motivation, job satisfaction, and organisationalcommitment of library Personnel in Academic and Research Libraries in Oyo State, Nigeria. Library Philosophy and Practice.

Terpstra, E., Honoree, & Andree, L. (2003). The relative importance of external, internal, individual, and procedural equity to pay satisfaction. Compensation and Benefits, 35(6), 67-74. IJMS 23 (1), 51–72 (2016)

Thomas, K. W., & Tymon, W. G., Jr. (1994). Does empowerment always work: Understanding the role of intrinsic motivation and personal interpretation. Journal of Management Systems, 6(2), 1-13.

Thomas, K. W., & Velthouse, B. A. (1990). Cognitive elements of empowerment: An interpretive model of intrinsic task motivation. Academy of Management Review, 15, 666-681.

Tremblay, M. S., Inman, J. W., & Willms, J. D. (2000). The relationship between physical activity, self-esteem, and academic http://ijms.uum.edu.my achievement in 12-Year-Old Children. Pediatric Exercise Science, 12, 312-324.

Tymon, W. G., Jr. (1988). An empirical investigation of a cognitive model of empowerment. Doctoral dissertation, Temple University.

Vandenberghe, C., & Tremblay, M. (2008). The role of pay satisfaction and organisational commitment in turnover intentions: A two-sample study. Journal of Business and Psychology, 22, 275–286.

Wang, G., & Lee, P. D. (2009). Psychological empowerment and job satisfaction: An analysis of interactive effect. Group and Organisation Management, 34, 271-296.

Downloads

Published

27-06-2016

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 1 (2016): International Journal of Management Studies (IJMS) Vol. 23, No. 1 June 2016

Section

Articles

Research impact

Harvested 2026-09-08
0 citations recorded so far

Counts differ between services because each indexes a different body of literature. None of them is the whole picture.

Identifiers DOI 10.32890/ijms2016.23.1.4