Fifty Years of Psychological Contract Research: What Do We Know and What are the Main Challenges?

By N. Conway, Rob B. Briner. 2012

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The effect of exposure to bullying on turnover intentions: the role of perceived psychological contract violation and benevolent behaviour (2017, background): “According to Conway and Briner (2009), the psychological contract essentially helps us understanding two things: how reciprocal promises oblige employees to perform tasks for the employer, and how employees react when they believe promises made have been broken.”
Effects of ideological and relational psychological contract breach and fulfilment on volunteers’ work effort (2014, background): “The PC literature is filled to the brim with studies on breach (Conway & Briner, 2009).”
Breach Begets Breach: Trickle-Down Effects of Psychological Contract Breach on Customer Service (2010, background): “…to the consequences of psychological contract breach (or an employee’s perception that the organization has failed to fulfill promised obligations; Conway & Briner, 2009; Raja, Johns, & Ntalianis, 2004; Restubog, Hornsey, Bordia, & Esposo, 2008; Taylor & Tekleab, 2004; Zhao, Wayne, Glibkowski,…”
Doing more with less? Employee reactions to psychological contract breach via target similarity or spillover during public sector organizational change (2014, unknown): “Other explanations for the withdrawal of contributions following breach include increasing distrust of the organization’s future ability to deliver on promises and a desire to retaliate to get back at the organization (Conway & Briner 2009).”
Reciprocal effects of psychological contract breach on counterproductive and organizational citizenship behaviors: The role of time (2018, unknown): “However, the PC literature by and large overlooks the role of exchange and mutual influence (Conway & Briner, 2009).”
The relationship between psychological contract breach and organizational commitment: Exchange imbalance as a moderator of the mediating role of violation (2011, background): “Three main features of psychological contract theory continue to capture the interest of researchers (Conway & Briner, 2009).”
Effects of Resource Availability on Social Exchange Relationships: The Case of Employee Psychological Contract Obligations (2017, background): “Psychological contract processes have primarily been related to attitudinal or performance outcomes (Conway & Briner, 2009).”
Making sense of psychological contract breach (2011, background): “Although the negative consequences of contract breach have received the greatest empirical attention (Conway and Briner, 2009), an increasing number of Making sense of psychological contract breach”
Benevolent leadership and psychological well-being (2016, background): “Therefore, organizations play an important role in shaping employees’ perception of the state of their psychological contracts (Conway and Briner, 2009).”