Impact of Role (Ambiguity and Conflict) on Teaching Assistants’ Satisfaction and Intention to Leave: Pakistani HEIs

Goher Fatima,Wali Ur Rehman

doi:10.5539/ijbm.v7n16p56

Abstract

Research assistants play very important role in producing research outputs and in supporting the research inHEIs. The focus of this study, initially, was to enlist the roles assigned to these teaching assistants in varioussetups (HEIs in this case). However, the impact of role ambiguity and role conflict on satisfaction and theirintention to leave was also ascertained. Data was collected from 120 teaching assistants, engaged in variousuniversities in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The results found that the satisfaction and intention to leave arenegatively and positively affected, respectively by these role variables. The universities are recommended toencourage the research assistants by facilitating both in term of monetary and job related factors.

Highlights

Higher Education institutions plays very important role in developing new skills and polishing the raw skills of human capital
According to Gillon and Hoad (2001) higher education institutions utilizes their well-qualified graduates in delivering lectures at undergraduate levels in an attempt to cut the costs of engaging professional faculty members
The objectives of the study are to: 1) Enlist the roles and responsibilities assigned to these teaching assistants; 2) Measure their level of satisfaction while performing their duties; 3) Analyze the level of role ambiguity being felt by them; 4) Analyze level of role conflict being felt by them; 5) Evaluate their intention to leave the university;

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Introduction

Higher Education institutions plays very important role in developing new skills and polishing the raw skills of human capital. Lack of sufficient resources and financial constraints led the universities to utilize their graduate students to teach the students at undergraduate levels. These are due to the larger sizes of the students (due to turbulent increase in the population of the age seeking admissions). According to Gillon and Hoad (2001) higher education institutions utilizes their well-qualified graduates in delivering lectures at undergraduate levels (in their initial semesters or years) in an attempt to cut the costs of engaging professional faculty members

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