This study aims to explore the contribution of psychological contract and psychological empowerment towards employee engagement with in Indian IT sector. Research hypotheses were evaluated using multiple regression analysis. Findings indicated that both the variables i.e. psychological contract...

Globalization and rapid technological development have led many organizations to change the management style following mergers and acquisition, reshuffling and downsizing of the organizations. It has been suggested that these organizational changes alter the nature of the psychological contract...

This study attempts to uncover how organizational variables (organizational cynicism, organizational injustice, breach of psychological contract) cause deviant work behavior among doctors and nurses of the public sector hospitals of Pakistan. The research was conducted through a survey, adopted...

This study examines the nature and role of Psychological Contract Violation (PCV) in online marketplaces, a critical factor that has been largely overlooked by previous research. Applied to buyer-seller relationships, PCV is defined as a buyer's perception of having being treated wrongly...

In Granarolo SpA v Ambrosi Emmi France SA, the European Court of Justice held that a dispute between a distributor and its supplier concerning an action for damages for the abrupt termination of a long-term business relationship, which was not expressed in a framework, umbrella contract, was a...

This paper aims at identifying the relationships between the psychological contract of the employees and the working environment of Citycell and Teletalk companies in Bangladesh. Eighty executives from City Cell, a private company, and Teletalk, a government company, were interviewed with a...

The term “liberty of contract” is usually associated with the doctrine that the due process clause of the United States Constitution prohibits or should prohibit the State from regulating contracts between private individuals. Many libertarians and free-market advocates embrace the liberty...

Implicit contracts can mitigate moral hazard in labor, credit and product markets. The enforcement mechanism underlying an implicit contract is the threat of exclusion: the agent fears that he will lose future income if the principal breaks off the relationship. This threat may be very weak in...

We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...

Psychological contract, breach has been executed when employees perceive that employer has failed to fulfill one or more of its obligations. This breach of contract affects the behaviors and outcomes of employees in many ways. This study makes a unique contribution to the literature by being the...