Exploring the Psychological Contract Between Self-Initiated Expatriate Academics and Their Organizations in Japan

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A university is an organization - a place where we create and disseminate knowledge - it has an organizational focus and organizational units. Conceptualizing a university in this way　makes it necessary to recognize that these organizations have typical organizational problems that require organizational solutions. One such organizational problem is human resource management. Academics and administrators in higher education are employees of the organization and are expected to fulfill the mission of the organization. Research on higher education (HE) employees, that utilizes theories from organizational behavior and HRM, is a relatively new field of research, particularly in cross-cultural settings. Within Japanese higher education, the number of self-initiated expatriate academics is increasing. As such, this multicultural and diverse workforce calls for more research to be conducted on the academics’ positions within the organization. Through narrative inquiry, this qualitative, pilot study explores how seven non-Japanese, self-initiated expatriate academics in Japanese HE view their psychological contract with their organization. The paper argues that psychological contracts are indicative of communication within the organization and form a useful basis for better understanding intercultural workplaces.

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