Job satisfaction, academic motivation, and organizational citizenship behavior among lecturers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-national comparative study in Japan and Malaysia

Ghasemy, Majid; Elwood, James A.

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“…The ongoing pandemic, however, changed a lot of practices in all sectors (Mihalache and Mihalache 2022 ), and higher education is no exception (Mok and Montgomery 2021 ). New and updated policies were implemented worldwide to maximize the academic communities’ safety and to ensure that the process of quality teaching and learning was not adversely affected by the pandemic (Ghasemy and Elwood 2022 ). The global experience and diverse aspects included distinguish the Covid-19 pandemic from crises we have known so far (Mihalache & Mihalache 2022 ).…”

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A conditional time-varying multivariate latent growth curve model for the relationships between academics’ servant leadership behavior, affective commitment, and job performance during the Covid-19 pandemic

Ghasemy

Frömbling

2022

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In our study, we investigated the change patterns in academics’ servant leadership behavior and affective commitment during and after the first Covid-19 lockdown (April 2020–August 2020) in Malaysia. Furthermore, we evaluated the influence of academics’ servant leadership behavior on job performance through affective commitment. We applied additional analyses to determine the degree to which the two former constructs are influenced by age and academic rank. To do so, we leveraged multivariate latent growth curve (LGC) modeling in analyzing the longitudinal data collected from 220 academics at three time points over a course of four months during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our results showed that, while servant leadership and affective commitment were stable over time, servant leadership was a driver of affective commitment and job performance. We also observed that affective commitment significantly mediated the relationship between academics’ servant leadership behavior and job performance. Moreover, we found interindividual differences in servant leadership and affective commitment in terms of age and academic rank at the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown. Our multi-disciplinary research is among the limited number of studies applying a rigorous, longitudinal approach to examine behaviors (i.e., servant leadership and job performance) and attitudes (i.e., affective commitment) during the Covid-19 pandemic in higher education research.

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A conditional time-varying multivariate latent growth curve model for the relationships between academics’ servant leadership behavior, affective commitment, and job performance during the Covid-19 pandemic

Ghasemy

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2022

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“…by gender, age, career stage and academic degree. As Ghasemy and Elwood (2023) found, female teachers were more satisfied as compared to male teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan and Malaysia (658 academic respondents), when job satisfaction occurred as a strong predictor of academic motivation. This finding partly confirmed the earlier US sample (560 university teachers) study results by Okpara et al (2005), which found higher female faculty satisfaction with their work and co-workers.…”

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“…Moreover, based on the Malaysian sample Ghasemy and Elwood (2023) found that age also plays an important role. Okpara et al .…”

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Has the pandemic affected the motivation and job satisfaction of university researchers? A case study from France

Goncharuk,

Vinot

2023

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to determine whether the pandemic affects the motivation and job satisfaction of university researchers as a whole and by their separate groups by gender, age, academic position (career stage) and degree.Design/methodology/approachThe authors studied French universities for changes in motivation and job satisfaction among researchers under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. For this, two hypotheses were tested, using the one-way ANOVA parametric test and the Kruskal–Wallis nonparametric statistical test with the data collected during the in-depth interviews and surveys with university researchers from the Paris Diderot University and Jean Moulin University of Lyon III in 2019 and 2021.FindingsThere were found significant differences between changes in motivation and job satisfaction of respondent groups by gender, career stage and scientific degrees. All these differences in changes confirm hypothesis about the significant impact of the pandemic on certain motivators and elements of job satisfaction of various groups of university researchers. The study showed that pandemic restrictions and fears positively affect the motivation and job satisfaction of the younger generation of researchers and males, and negatively on the older generation and female researchers. During the pandemic, early-stage researchers are mostly unhappy only with the salary and the lack of teaching skills. While experienced and senior researchers do not have time to fulfill all their duties due to overload by a combination of different forms of teaching, many teaching hours, administrative duties and mastering new communication tools.Research limitations/implicationsThe results capture the selective impact of pandemic restrictions, its physical and mental effects on academic staff. Although only two universities in a single country were considered, the findings show the heterogeneity of the perception of new (pandemic) working conditions by different groups of university workers. If such heterogeneity is revealed in the example of two universities, then it is very likely to be observable also in broader studies.Practical implicationsThe results of this study can help university administrations, higher education regulators and national research agencies address the needs of all groups of researchers, alleviating the most acute restrictions and fears caused by the pandemic and providing the necessary incentives for relevant groups, e.g. higher salary, teaching school and awards for young researchers and a lower teaching loading for experienced and senior researchers.Originality/valueThis is the first study that define pandemic impact on motivation and job satisfaction of university researchers in France.

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“…Judge et al (2001), Bowling (2007), Uhl-Bien et al (2014) and Robbins and Judge (2018)). Importantly, job satisfaction has been found to influence faculty members' performance (Mamiseishvili and Rosser, 2010) as well as academic motivation and organizational citizenship behavior (Ghasemy and Elwood, 2022). The satisfaction-performance link is well known as the "Holy Grail" of industrial psychologists (Landy, 1989).…”

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Testing the “holy grail” of industrial psychology as a non-recursive bow pattern model in higher education using the PLSe2 method

Ghasemy

Gaskin

Elwood

2023

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PurposeThe direction of causality between job satisfaction and job performance (known as the holy grail of industrial psychologists) is undetermined and related research findings in different organizational contexts are mixed. Based on the ample literature, mainly from Western countries, on the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance, a non-recursive bow pattern model was utilized to investigate the direct relationship between these two variables in an Asia–Pacific higher education system.Design/methodology/approachThis study is quantitative in approach and survey in design. Additionally, to meet the statistical requirements of non-recursive bow pattern analysis, the authors added welfare as a theory-driven instrumental variable to introduce exogenous variability. Using the efficient partial least squares (PLSe2) estimator, the authors fitted the model to the data collected from 2008 academics affiliated with Malaysian public universities and polytechnics.FindingsThe results showed that while job satisfaction is considerably influenced by welfare, it is not a significant predictor of job performance directly. In addition, a meaningful positive correlation between the disturbance terms of job satisfaction and job performance was observed, suggesting the existence of other factors that could increase both job satisfaction and job performance. The findings' theoretical and practical implications are discussed, and a list of theory-driven evidenced-based policies in this regard is provided.Originality/valueThis is the first study to test a non-recursive bow pattern model and examine the holy grail of industrial psychology based on the PLSe2 methodology, as a parametric approach to partial least squares (PLS), in a higher education context. This study also provides higher education researchers with the advantages of the PLSe2 method, especially in causal-predictive modeling, in the context of applied higher education research.

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Job satisfaction, academic motivation, and organizational citizenship behavior among lecturers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-national comparative study in Japan and Malaysia

Cited by 17 publications

References 75 publications

A conditional time-varying multivariate latent growth curve model for the relationships between academics’ servant leadership behavior, affective commitment, and job performance during the Covid-19 pandemic

A conditional time-varying multivariate latent growth curve model for the relationships between academics’ servant leadership behavior, affective commitment, and job performance during the Covid-19 pandemic

Has the pandemic affected the motivation and job satisfaction of university researchers? A case study from France

Testing the “holy grail” of industrial psychology as a non-recursive bow pattern model in higher education using the PLSe2 method

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