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- The concept of a psychological contract emerged in the 1960s and was rooted in psychological and organizational behavior. It emphasized the human side of the relationship between employee and employer. A psychological contract encompasses the informal beliefs, ambitions, obligations, and expectations the employee and the employer perceives.
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A psychological contract encompasses the informal beliefs, ambitions, obligations, and expectations the employee and the employer perceives. Essentially, it’s how both parties understand their relationship outside of the written and signed employment contract and what they expect the other party to provide.
Literature on the psychological contract has blossomed progressively over the last ten years to the extent that it is now firmly located within the lexicon of the Human Resource Management (HRM) discipline. Yet as this review indicates, the theoretical assumptions that seem to pervade the psychological contract literature are not without major
May 3, 2018 · The psychological contract is an important agreement between employees and employers. This article looks at the key element of the contract: communication. It also looks at the role diversity plays and how breaches occur and how to avoid them.
- Mason Stevenson
We tailor this retrospective look by reviewing the antecedents and outcomes associated with psychological contract breach and discussing the dominant theoretical explanations for the breach-outcome relationship.
The term psychological contract refers to the often unspoken set of expectations and assumptions that two parties (employees and the organisation, its leaders and managers) have of each other about things like how they will behave and act.
In this chapter, we set out to answer two core questions; what determines the nature and content of the psychological contract, and what are the consequences of different types of, and different states of the psychological contract?
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Nov 17, 2005 · How well does the psychological contract help us understand what happens at work between an employee and their employer? Is this idea of practical value in managing employees? How can our understanding of this important concept be developed in the future?
