Can You Get a Better Deal Elsewhere? The Effects of Psychological Contract Replicability on Organizational Commitment over Time

Autor/inn/en	Ng, Thomas W. H.; Feldman, Daniel C.
Titel	Can You Get a Better Deal Elsewhere? The Effects of Psychological Contract Replicability on Organizational Commitment over Time
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 73 (2008) 2, S.268-277 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0001-8791
DOI	10.1016/j.jvb.2008.05.004
Schlagwörter	Labor Market; Personnel Data; Work Experience; Employee Attitudes; Careers; Employer Employee Relationship; Contracts; Age Differences; Work Attitudes; Organizational Theories; Behavior Standards; Social Behavior; Values; Ethics; Expectation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Personaldaten; Employment experience; Job experience; Occupational experience; Berufserfahrung; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Career; Karriere; Vertrag; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Organisationstheorie; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Wertbegriff; Ethik; Expectancy; Erwartung
Abstract	Previous research on psychological contracts has focused on whether or not employees feel their employers have fulfilled the promises made to them. Instead, here we examine how perceptions of the external labor market, particularly about whether present psychological contracts could be replicated elsewhere, influence employees' attachment to their current employers. In a longitudinal study of a diverse employee sample, we found perceptions that psychological contracts could not be replicated elsewhere accounted for a substantial amount of the variance in affective commitment (0.38) and normative commitment (0.29) and a smaller, but significant, amount of the variance in continuance commitment (0.04). We also found significant moderating effects of age, work experience, and career stage on these relationships. The article concludes with implications for psychological contract theory, organizational commitment theory, and management practice. (Contains 3 figures and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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