The Effect of Climate on Quiet Quitting Behavior: A Study of Academics

Year 2025, Issue: 98, 38 - 53, 11.07.2025

Nurcan Çetiner , Ela Oğan

https://doi.org/10.26650/imj.2025.1519064

Abstract

The concept of quiet quitting, which has recently been included in the organizational behavior literature, is defined as employees focusing on their work during legal working hours as determined by their employers and, not spending time on work-related issues outside of working hours. It is noteworthy that the phenomenon of “quiet quitting” considered an undesirable behavior in organizational settings, is observed among academicians. In this study, we investigate the prevalence of quiet quitting in academia. We determine the reasons that push academics to quiet their quitting behavior. We are also assessing the impact of psychological climate on quiet quitting behavior. Using data obtained from academics working in Turkey, we determine that the leading reasons that push academics to exhibit quiet quitting behavior are manager's attitudes and behaviors, organizational injustice, lack of time for academic publications, lack of motivation, and insufficient salary/additional benefits. We reveal a negative relationship between academics’ psychological climate perceptions and quiet quitting behavior. We state that as psychological climate perceptions increase, academics’ levels of quiet quitting behavior decrease. It was concluded that all subdimensions of psychological climate perceptions were negatively related to Quiet Quitting Behavior (QQB).

Keywords

Quiet Quitting , Psychological Climate , Academics

Ethical Statement

Ethical permission was obtained for the study with the decision of Artvin Çoruh University Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Board dated 20.02.2024 and numbered E-126514.

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