Promises Made, Promises Broken: An Exploration of Employee Attraction and Retention Practices in Small Business

By Jill R. Kickul. 2001

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Violation of the Psychological Contract: The Mediating Effect of Relational Versus Transactional Beliefs (2007, background): “Kickul (2001), in her study of small business employees who were also enrolled in a parttime MBA program, found that psychological contract violation was negatively associated with an employee’s commitment and affect toward the firm, and positively related to intention to leave.”
Reactions to psychological contract breach: a dual perspective (2008, unknown): “…evidence that PIB was negatively related to an employee’s organizational commitment (OC; e.g., Bunderson, 2001; Coyle-Shapiro & Kessler, 2000; Kickul, 2001; Lester, Turnley, Bloodgood, & Bolino, 2002; Raja et al., 2004; Robinson, 1995), in-role performance (e.g., Bunderson, 2001; Lester et…”
Attractiveness of non-financial rewards for prospective knowledge workers: An experimental investigation (2015, background): “A problem associated with this is the lack of delivery on the organisation’s promises or perceived promises to the employees (Kickul, 2001).”
Psychological contract breach and job attitudes: A meta-analysis of age as a moderator (2008, unknown): “…( 2 0 0 8 ) 1 4 3 – 1 5 8 149 Table 1 (continued) Authors Sample Age Tenure N Rxx Breach Trust Satisfaction Commitment r ryy r ryy r ryy 40 Lester and Kickul (2001) US MBA students 27.6 3.4 268 — .21 .86 41 Lester et al. (2002) US MBA students 32.27 4.34 134 .89 .60 .87 42 Lo and Aryee (2003)…”
The impact of psychological contracts upon trust and commitment within supplier–buyer relationships: A social exchange view (2006, background): “…to comprise both constructive and destructive actions, however this is contingent upon the extent of employee loyalty, as well as the attribution given to the perceived failure (cf. Guest 1998; Kickul 2001; Morrison and Robinson 1997; Robinson 1996; Rousseau 1989; Turnley and Feldman 1998; 1999).”
THE IMPACT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT BREACH ON WORK‐RELATED OUTCOMES: A META‐ANALYSIS (2007, background): “However, three studies (Cassar, 2001; Lambert, Edwards, & Cable, 2003; Lester & Kickul, 2001) 1 The detailed list of included studies and their characteristics is available from the first author upon request. reported correlations between individual content items and outcomes separately without…”
Formal Development Opportunities and Withdrawal Behaviors by Employees in Small and Medium‐Sized Enterprises (2010, background): “It is widely accepted that small organizations often have fewer resources available for HR initiatives, are less likely to provide formal training opportunities, and can face particular challenges in relation to employee career development and advancement compared with larger firms (Barrett and Mays”