Reactions of temporary employees to psychological contract breach
The employment relationship with temporary employees is often poorly managed. Employers assume that these employees have only short term transactional psychological contracts. Adopting a ‘psychological contract perspective’, a qualitative study was conducted to examine the attitudinal and behavioral...
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Journal of International Management Studies
2013
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| author | Ahmed, E. D'Netto, Brian |
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| description | The employment relationship with temporary employees is often poorly managed. Employers assume that these employees have only short term transactional psychological contracts. Adopting a ‘psychological contract perspective’, a qualitative study was conducted to examine the attitudinal and behavioral reactions when the promise of permanent employment to temporary employees was not fulfilled. Results of our qualitative study indicated that temporary employees experienced negative affective reactions (i.e., sadness, depression and betrayal) and adverse behavioral outcomes (i.e., poor performance). The implications of psychological contract breach are discussed. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-594342018-03-02T00:32:06Z Reactions of temporary employees to psychological contract breach Ahmed, E. D'Netto, Brian The employment relationship with temporary employees is often poorly managed. Employers assume that these employees have only short term transactional psychological contracts. Adopting a ‘psychological contract perspective’, a qualitative study was conducted to examine the attitudinal and behavioral reactions when the promise of permanent employment to temporary employees was not fulfilled. Results of our qualitative study indicated that temporary employees experienced negative affective reactions (i.e., sadness, depression and betrayal) and adverse behavioral outcomes (i.e., poor performance). The implications of psychological contract breach are discussed. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/59434 10.18374/JIMS-13-1.1 Journal of International Management Studies fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Ahmed, E. D'Netto, Brian Reactions of temporary employees to psychological contract breach |
| title | Reactions of temporary employees to psychological contract breach |
| title_full | Reactions of temporary employees to psychological contract breach |
| title_fullStr | Reactions of temporary employees to psychological contract breach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reactions of temporary employees to psychological contract breach |
| title_short | Reactions of temporary employees to psychological contract breach |
| title_sort | reactions of temporary employees to psychological contract breach |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/59434 |