The Impact of Gender and Department Climate on Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Quit for Faculty in Science and Engineering Fields

Ronda Callister ()

The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2006, vol. 31, issue 3, 367-375

Abstract: This study investigates whether gender and the perceptions of department climate affects faculty job satisfaction and intentions to quit (work outcomes) with surveys responses from 308 faculty members in science and engineering fields. The study finds that both gender and department climate are related to work outcomes and that two facets of department climate (affective and instrumental) mediate the relationship between gender and both job satisfaction and intention to quit. This finding suggests that universities can benefit from improving department climate, which then may improve the retention of both male and female faculty, but may have an even greater impact on improving job satisfaction and reducing intentions to quit of female faculty. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2006

Keywords: gender; climate; work outcomes; regression and/or mediation analysis; faculty; D23; M14; I20; C42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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