The concept of psychological contract has been gaining importance in the recent times along with theory authentic leadership. It is prerogative leaders to understand between themselves and their employees as it provides them a competitive advantage creating motivational work environment where equity valued. Four companies, namely, Costco, PwC, Southwest Airlines Aravind Eye Hospital were select...

Much research has now documented the substantial influence of safety climate on a range of important outcomes in safety critical organizations, but there has been scant attention to the question of what factors might be responsible for positive or negative safety climate. The present paper draws from positive organizational behavior theory to test workplace and individual factors that may affec...

This study investigated the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees' deviant workplace behaviors (DWB), as well as the mediating effects of psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 391 manufacturing workers in a northern city of China. Structural equation modeling was performed to test the theory-driven models...

This study examines factors a€ecting employees' perceptions that their psychological contract has been breached by their organization, and factors a€ecting whether this perception will cause employees to experience feelings of contract violation. Data were obtained from 147 managers just prior to their beginning of new job (time 1) and 18 months later (time 2). It was found that perceived contr...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between psychological contract breach (PCB) and violation (PCV), extent which moderated by tenure. data for was collected from a sample 304 faculty members working in three public-sector universities Quetta City. Data were respondents using proportionate random sampling close-ended questionnaires. analysis revealed that PCB had significan...

We examine whether psychological contract theory and social response theory can explain users’ responses to e-commerce recommendation agents (RAs). Theories of social response to technology, trust in technology, and technology adoption are used to adapt psychological contract theory to explain user-RA relationship. We theorize that a psychological contract breach will cause a negative emotional...