Psychological contracts represent unofficial or informal expectations that an individual holds, most commonly applied to an employer–employee relationship. Understanding psychological contracts helps explain the consequences of unmet expectations, including increased budgetary slack and...

Using employer-employee data from Germany, this paper analyzes the relationship between wages and past and contemporaneous labor market conditions. Specifically, we test the implications of implicit contract models (Beaudry and DiNardo, 1991) and an on-the-job search model (Hagedorn and...

Objective – Organizational changes and transformations are common phenomenon these days. Changes may lead to the breach of psychological contract of employer-employee expectation on the employment thus affect employee's job satisfaction. This study was conducted with the aim to identify the...

Firms often combine career concerns based incentives with incentives created through relational performance contracts. In this context, disclosure of worker's productivity information enhances career concerns based incentives, but may reduce the firm's ability to sustain relational contracts....

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...

Using administrative data from Germany, this paper analyzes the relation between wages and past and current labor market conditions. Specifically, it explores whether the data is more consistent with implicit contract models (Beaudry/DiNardo, 1991) or a matching model with on-the-job search and...

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...