Role of Psychological Contract in Employee Engagement in Higher Education: Empirical Study on Uttarakhand

Abstract

The research study was pursued with an attempt to Study the Role of Psychological Contract in the Employees Engagement with specific objectives of Learning the Role of Psychological Contract in the Employees Engagement, identifying the numerousmagnitudes of Employee Engagement, studying the impact of Psychological Contract on every aspect of Employee Engagement and studying the impact of age, tenure and gender on Employee Engagement. Stratified random sampling technique was adopted as means of data collection from 600 full-time employees working in private HEI in Uttarakhand using structured and self-administered questionnaires: PC Questionnaire and ER Questionnaire checking their validity and reliability. The need of the study was to establish relationship between employee engagement or retention with the psychological contracts and the outcomesestablish the same.Many Organisations willantagonize difficulties in the coming years. Major amongst the most imperiousproblems will be procuring, preparing, overseeing and holding millennial employees. A theoretical commitment of this examination is that it joins two territories of research not already explored together with regards to establishments; psychological contracts and worker retention. The outcomes show that there is a solid connection between psychological contract satisfaction and employee engagement, however the relationship does not seem, by all accounts, to be directed by some other factor, for example, age, gender or tenure. Following specific results were from a practical perspective, there is a growing interest in understanding employee engagement, as it is perceived that the growth and prosperity of organizations will rely heavily on the committed and competent workforce. The suggestion that the relationship between PCfulfilment and ER are positively related irrespective of age and gender is indicative of the fact that management need to pay more focus on the fulfilment of motivating psychological contract rather than adherence to merely hygiene factors.