When Enough Is Enough: Modelling the Path from Unreasonable Tasks to the Intention to Leave Academia

Autor/inn/en	Bramlage, Jack K.; Julmi, Christian; Pereira, José Manuel; Jackenkroll, Benedict
Titel	When Enough Is Enough: Modelling the Path from Unreasonable Tasks to the Intention to Leave Academia
Quelle	In: European Journal of Higher Education, 11 (2021) 4, S.386-407 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Julmi, Christian) ORCID (Pereira, José Manuel)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2156-8235
DOI	10.1080/21568235.2021.1873160
Schlagwörter	College Faculty; Teacher Attitudes; Career Change; Doctoral Students; Work Environment; Structural Equation Models; Student Attitudes; Faculty Workload; Universities; Burnout; Foreign Countries; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Lehrerverhalten; Career changes; Berufswechsel; Doctoral studies; Doctorate studies; Student; Students; Doctoral candidate; Doktorandenprogramm; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Doktorand; Doktorandin; Arbeitsmilieu; Schülerverhalten; University; Universität; Burn out (Psychology); Burnout-syndrom; Burnout-Syndrom; Ausland; Deutschland
Abstract	Recurring reports indicate that doctoral and postdoctoral students are regularly confronted with tasks that exceed contractually agreed duties and responsibilities. Research shows that such unreasonable tasks are dysfunctional to both the individual and the organization. However, there is a lack of reliable knowledge about more complex interconnections between unreasonable tasks and their consequences. The paper therefore investigates the mechanisms by which unreasonable tasks relate to doctoral and postdoctoral students' experience of their working conditions. The research model is tested using structural equation modelling (SEM) and data from 1053 doctoral and postdoctoral students at randomly selected German universities. The results reveal that unreasonable tasks have extensive and diverse negative effects on quantitative role overload, effort-reward imbalance, exhaustion, and intention to leave academia. In this way, the paper demonstrates how unreasonable tasks trigger sequences of negative effects that lead to the (post)doctoral students' intention to leave academia. The occurrence of unreasonable tasks is thus problematic not only for the individual, but also for the university as an organization. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01