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Title A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THINKING STYLES AND JOB EMBEDDEDNESS AMONG PUBLIC AND PRIVATE UNIVERSITY TEACHERS

Author(s) SHAZIA QUMMER

Abstract Thinking styles play significant roles in job embeddedness. Eight objectives were designed for this study. The current study aimed to make a demographic comparison of gender, sector, departments, qualification, and teaching experience with reference to thinking styles and job embeddedness of university teachers. The theoretical framework of this study was based on two theories, Mental self-development theory by Robert Sternberg (2007) and theory of job embeddedness by Mitchell et al. (2001). The study population consisted of 1369 faculty members teaching in selected departments of five public and four private universities of Islamabad. A proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used. A total of four hundred and eighty (480) university teachers were selected from the population. Two standardized questionnaires, were used for data collection. The reliability of the thinking style scale was .945, and the reliability of the job embeddedness scale was .900. t-test statistics revealed no significant differences in thinking styles among male and female university teachers except local thinking styles. The results related to job embeddedness also illustrated no significant differences related to subscales of job embeddedness among male and female university teachers except organizational links. Significant differences were found related to these (legislative, executive, judicial, hierarchical, oligarchic, anarchic, local, and external) subscales of thinking styles among university teachers in public and private sector except monarchic, global, internal, liberal, and conservative thinking style. Analysis of variance also explored the significant difference in opinion of teachers based on qualification about functions, forms, and learnings of thinking styles. In contrast, no difference was found in levels and scope of thinking styles. Based on findings, it was recommended that the management of the private sector universities may provide proper training about different thinking styles through collaboration with public sector universities so that they can understand the thinking styles of their employees. This knowledge will help them select the right person for the right job.

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Department Education

Language English

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