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      The Higher-Ed Organizational-Scholar Tension: How Scholarship Compatibility and the Alignment of Organizational and Faculty Skills, Values and Support Affects Scholar's Performance and Well-Being

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          Scholars and institutions alike are concerned with academic productivity. Scholars not only further knowledge in their professional fields, they also bring visibility and prestige to themselves and their institutions, which in turn attracts research grants and more qualified faculty and graduate students. Many studies have been done on scholar productivity, and many of them focus on individual factors such as gender, marital status, and individual psychological characteristics. Also, a few studies are concerned about scholars' well-being. We propose a causal model that considers the compatibility of the scholarship dimensions valued by scholars and institutions and their academic alignment with actual institutional recognition and support. We test our causal model with data from a survey of 803 faculty participants. Our findings shed light on how the above academic factors affect not just academic productivity but also a scholar's well-being. Importantly, we show that academic alignment plays a crucial mediating role when predicting productivity and well-being. These results have important implications for university administrators who develop, and faculty who work under, policies designed to foster professional development and scholarship.

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                Journal
                Front Psychol
                Front Psychol
                Front. Psychol.
                Frontiers in Psychology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-1078
                13 April 2017
                2017
                : 8
                : 450
                Affiliations
                [1] 1Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Pittsburgh, PA, USA
                [2] 2Business Administration, Carlow University Pittsburgh, PA, USA
                [3] 3Information Systems, Brigham Young University Provo, UT, USA
                [4] 4Organization, Behavior and Leadership, Antioch University Yellow Springs, OH, USA
                Author notes

                Edited by: Badri Bajaj, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India

                Reviewed by: Alessandra Tognazzo, University of Padua, Italy; Alexander Pundt, University of Mannheim, Germany

                *Correspondence: James Gaskin james.gaskin@ 123456byu.edu

                This article was submitted to Organizational Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

                Article
                10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00450
                5390011
                f7240986-0339-41e9-936e-8791e3a626ad
                Copyright © 2017 Pereyra-Rojas, Mu, Gaskin and Lingham.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 25 August 2016
                : 10 March 2017
                Page count
                Figures: 2, Tables: 6, Equations: 1, References: 69, Pages: 17, Words: 12218
                Categories
                Psychology
                Original Research

                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                scholarship identity,scholarship compatibility,scholarship productivity,academic alignment,well-being,job satisfaction,life satisfaction,person-organization fit

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