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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Psychological contract"”.
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Understanding the Volunteer Youth Coaching Environment: A Psychological Contract Perspective
… explore the volunteer coaching environment using psychological contract theory. Psychological contract posits that volunteers and their organization have implicit and explicit expectations of each other, and the breach and fulfillment of these expectations impact volunteers’ attitude and intended …
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The fluidity of the psychological contract during times of change
… a hybrid work environment altered employee’s psychological contracts in terms of employee’s perceptions of trust, work life balance and perceived organisational support. A qualitative study was conducted on a small government institution that used a hybrid work environment. Semi-structure …
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The psychological contract and employee performance in post-acquisition integration
… and understand if there was a change in the psychological contract post-acquisition and if so, did this change have a positive, negative or no effect on employee performance. Previous research and literature has suggested that identity was a critical measure of post-acquisition success (2011, …
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Working relationships in family business: a psychological contract theory perspective
… shaping their success or failure. Drawing upon psychological contract theory, this study investigates the formation and content dimensions of psychological contracts among family and non-family employees in family businesses. By comparing and contrasting these perspectives, this study uncovers …
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Beyond the Psychological Contract: Ideology and the Economic Social Contract
… of economic justice within the economic social contract of the United States. I argue that distinct views of such a contract grounded in the tradition of individualism and communitarianism manifest in people's judgments about economic justice. We empirically test these hypotheses on a sample of …
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The Psychological Contract: The Development and Validation of a Managerial Measure
… development and validation, a measure of the psychological work contract for managerial level employees. The psychological contract is the unwritten implicit contract that forms in the minds of employees and contains the obligations and expectations that they believe exists between themselves …
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The impact of the academic psychological contract on job performance and satisfaction
ABSTRACT What is known as the psychological contract is the ‘promises and the nature of relationships that exists between employee and employer’ (Schein, 1978). While this concept has been researched at some depth with the study of organisational careers, a paucity of research exists in terms of …
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The psychological contract of solicitors and the impact of promotion to partnership
The aim of this research was to draw upon psychological contract theory to examine solicitors’ perceptions of expectations and obligations. Socialisation processes and the role of Organisational Citizenship Behaviours (OCB) were explored in relation to promotion to partnership. Context is important …
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Examination of Inter-relationships between Psychological Contract, Careerist Orientation, and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour
… impact of careerist orientation and the implicit psychological contracts between employers and employees on organisational citizenship behaviour. It was hypothesized that the effect of careerist orientation and the nature of psychological contract on organisational citizenship behaviour would be …
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Survivor reactions to organizational downsizing: The influence of justice perceptions and the psychological contract.
… relationships of organizational justice and the psychological contract with four outcome variables in a downsizing context. Multinational data were gathered from survivors representing a variety of organizations and industries. The main focus of the current study examined the relationships …
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The Psychological Contract of Multiple Agency Relationships: Understanding the Attitudes and Behaviors of Contractors
… workers. The current study proposes the psychological contract as an explanatory framework for understanding differences between contractors and regular employees. The hypotheses examined attitudinal and behavioral measures: organizational commitment, job satisfaction, intent to quit, job …
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The Line in the Sand: Understanding Customer Sexual Harassment Through a Psychological Contract Framework
… & Major, 2008). The current study applies psychological contract theory toward understanding how CSH leads to adverse outcomes, which affect individuals and organizations. A sample of 420 working women including both students and full-time non-student workers from various organizations were …
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The psychological contract of international business travellers with their employers. Perspectives of Belgian travellers
… well as the distinctiveness and the state of the psychological contract that the employees involved have with their current employer. The research described and substantiated in this work was devised from the IBT’s perspective, and occurs within a Belgian context. Consistent with a – …
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The changing contours of the employment relationship: a case study of the psychological contract
… emergence of a new employment relationship or psychological contract. In the face of this new situation two questions become apparent: ‘how can the new psychological contract be managed effectively?’ and ‘what are the organisational consequences of an ineffectively managed psychological …
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The psychological contract as an explanatory framework for the student experience at Sunderland Business School
… further investigated using the concept of the psychological contract. The findings suggest that many students have an incongruent psychological contract that can result in their under-achievement at university. The research proposes a model of the student/university psychological contract that …
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The role of psychological contract breach in determining Chinese civil servants' behavioural responses to organizational change
… area of concern being any breaches of the psychological contracts (PCB) and the negative behaviours that result from these. In extant literature concerns the impact of organizational change on employment relationship, however, the perceived obligations that exist in the employment …
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The Relationship Between Psychological Contract Breach, Professional Identity, And Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: An Equity Sensitivity Perspective
… it tested the effects of the type of perceived psychological contract breach, equity sensitivity, and identity salience on an important employee outcome, namely organizational citizenship behaviors. Second, the research explored the effects that discipline and pharmacist status have on …
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