Evaluation of the relations between psychological contract breach perception and job satisfaction in health academicians

Today, the tangible differences between institutions are gradually decreasing. From the perspective of sustainable competition, human-oriented elements gain importance for institutions. The concept of job satisfaction in employees has maintained its importance for many years. Recently, the concept of psychological contract breach has started to gain importance. Higher education and academicians have a very important position in the structuring, development and change of societies. In the field of health, the issue is much more important. Evaluation of the attitudes of academicians, which is an indispensable element of higher education, is seen as an important field of study and worth researching in every respect. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of psychological contract breach perception on job satisfaction of academicians working in the field of health and to reveal the relationships between job satisfaction and its dimensions, an important output for the organization, psychological contract breach perception and its dimensions. Besides, it aims to contribute to the literature by investigating the moderator role of demographic characteristics in these relations. For this purpose, a research was carried out with the participation of 409 academicians working in the departments providing education in the field of health, excluding medicine and dentistry, in Ankara. Data were collected by electronic questionnaire method and statistical analysis was performed. The results are summarized as frequency tables, hypothesis tests, correlation, regression and moderator effect analysis. As a result of the study, in terms of both psychological contract breach perception and job satisfaction, no statistically significant difference was found between the groups according to gender, marital status and type of university. Statistically significant differences were found between the groups in terms of both psychological contract breach perception and job satisfaction in regard to age, title, academic year and working time at the current university. According to the correlation analysis, the relationships between psychological contract breach perception and job satisfaction in all dimensions are negative and statistically significant. According to the results of the regression analysis, relational breach seemed to be more effective on job satisfaction dimensions. Among the demographic characteristics, only the moderator role of the university type was found to be statistically significant. According to the findings, various suggestions were given to managers, researchers and authorities.