In The Past, Researchers In Higher Education Highlighted The Increasing Research

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Term Paper Title	In The Past, Researchers In Higher Education Highlighted The Increasing Research
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In the past, researchers in higher education highlighted the increasing research requirements at large, public universities (e.g., Bieber, Lawrence & Blackburn, 1992). However, calls for greater accountability and a nationwide investment in assessing and documenting the outcomes of undergraduate education have refocused universities' attention on teaching and the instructional performance of faculty (Barr & Tagg, 1995). As a result, new faculty are entering a market that requires them to balance a variety of academic roles if they are to become successful and ultimately obtain tenure (Massy & Wilger, 1995). Unfortunately, many of these individuals do not have realistic views of what the faculty role actually entails prior to their [End Page 39] employment (Gaff & Lambert, 1996). This paper investigates the consequences of discrepancies between expectations and realities about work attitudes and tenure acquisition using Porter and Steers (1973) "met expectations" hypothesis.

The "Met Expectations" Hypothesis
At its most fundamental, the met expectations hypothesis predicts "that when an individual's [job] expectations--whatever they are--are not substantially met, his propensity to withdraw should increase" (Porter & Steers, 1973, p. 152). A more fully articulated and useful version of the hypothesis suggests a causal model in which fulfillment of work expectations affects employee job satisfaction, work commitment, and other job-related attitudes which in turn affect job performance and, ultimately, turnover. A number of recent studies have applied this form of the model to the work experiences of new employees in large organizations (e.g., Major et al., 1995; Pearson, 1995; Rosin & Korabik, 1995). A logical extension of this model has also been developed in the literature on "realistic job review." Research on realistic review seeks to demonstrate that information and experiences that enable job applicants and new employees to formulate more realistic expectations of their work result in greater job satisfaction, better performance, and, in general, improved "job survival" (Premack & Wanous, 1985). A very similar argument is made about the important influence of realistic work expectations on productivity in the current TQM literature (e.g., Longenecker & Scazzero, 1993).

The met expectations hypothesis may be usefully applied to research on faculty where, to date, there has been relatively little attention on how well faculty positions match faculty...

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