This book examines the links between employee-organisation relationships, work wellness and the impact thereof on the labour market from a South African perspective. By employing this focus, the book explains the role of the employment relationship and the psychological contract in improving...

This paper investigated the effect of employee share ownership, mediated through psychological ownership, on organizational citizenship behavior. The analysis included the possible complementary role of High Performance Ownership systems. This paper investigated these relationships by analyzing...

The present study is designed to investigate the influence of organizational culture and Human Resource practices (HR practices) on the development of psychological contract as such and two dimensions of it, transactional and relational. Data were collected from 95 full-time working employees...

Chapter 1: Introduction to Aging Workers and the Employee-Employer Relationship; P. Matthijs Bal, Dorien T.A.M. Kooij and Denise M. Rousseau -- PART I: THE ROLE OF CONTEXT AND THE ORGANIZATION -- Chapter 2: Older Workers, Stereotypes, and Discrimination in the Context of the Employment...

Research on psychological contract breach has referenced social exchange as its dominant theoretical foundation. In this study, we draw insights from the group value model as a theoretical extension to explain employees' negative responses to psychological contract breach. According to the group...

The study provides evidence for the rationale of wage rigidity in Germany compared to the United States. Based on a survey of 801 firms, we extend the study of Campbell and Kanlani (1997, this journal) by using more thorough econometric methods, for example, and find strong support for...

When unemployment prevails, relations with a particular firm are valuable for workers. As a consequence, a worker may adhere to an implicit agreement to provide high effort, even when performance is not third-party enforceable. But can implicit agreements - or relational contracts - also...

In den letzten Jahren ist eine zunehmende Veränderungsdynamik in der Arbeitswelt zu beobachten. Mitarbeiter sind dabei häufig einschneidenden Veränderungsprozessen unterworfen. Christian Tracht untersucht, wie gut interne Arbeitsvermittlungen betroffene Mitarbeiter in ihren persönlichen...