scholarly journals The Job Insecurity of Others: On the Role of Perceived National Job Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mindy Shoss ◽  
Anahí Van Hootegem ◽  
Eva Selenko ◽  
Hans De Witte
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Psychological Contract Breach ◽  
Contract Breach ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
And Behaviors

Political scientists and sociologists have highlighted insecure work as a societal ill underlying individuals’ lack of social solidarity (i.e., concern about the welfare of disadvantaged others) and political disruption. In order to provide the psychological underpinnings connecting perceptions of job insecurity with societally-relevant attitudes and behaviors, we introduce the idea of perceived national job insecurity. Perceived national job insecurity reflects a person’s perception that job insecurity is more or less prevalent in his/her society (i.e., country). Across three countries (US, UK, Belgium), we find that higher perceptions of the prevalence of job insecurity in one’s country is associated with greater perceptions of government psychological contract breach and poorer perceptions of the government’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis, but at the same time is associated with greater social solidarity and compliance with COVID-19 social regulations. These findings are independent of individuals’ perceptions of threats to their own jobs.

scholarly journals Quantitative and Qualitative Job Insecurity and Idea Generation: The Mediating Role of Psychological Contract Breach

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Niesen ◽  
Anahí Van Hootegem ◽  
Yasmin Handaja ◽  
Adalgisa Battistelli ◽  
Hans De Witte
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Psychological Contract Breach ◽  
Contract Breach ◽  
Mediating Role

scholarly journals The Effect of Psychological Contract Violation in Employees’ Emotional Labor Strategies—Mediating Model with Regulation

2021 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 01009
Author(s):  
Li Mucun ◽  
Zhang Yuting ◽  
Chen Yiwen
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Psychological Contract Breach ◽  
Contract Breach ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Stress Theory ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Surface Performance

Emotional labor is the process of regulating expressions and emotions to meet organizational goals, including surface performance and deep performance. Based on psychological contract theory and stress theory, this study investigates the effect of psychological contract breach on emotional labor and the mediating role of job insecurity, which is mediated by personality traits, on this effect.

scholarly journals Psychological contract breach and voluntary turnover among newcomers: the role of supervisor trustworthiness and negative affectivity

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Émilie Lapointe ◽  
Christian Vandenberghe
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Negative Affectivity ◽  
Voluntary Turnover ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Psychological Contract Breach ◽  
Contract Breach ◽  
Indirect Relationship ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article looks at the relationship between psychological contract breach and voluntary turnover among newcomers, using supervisor trustworthiness as a mediator and negative affectivity as a moderator. Relying on data from 243 newcomers, psychological contract breach was found to be negatively related to the three dimensions of supervisor trustworthiness, i.e., ability, benevolence, and integrity. Supervisor integrity further mediated a positive relationship between psychological contract breach and voluntary turnover measured 8 months later. Psychological contract breach interacted with negative affectivity such that it was less negatively related to dimensions of supervisor trustworthiness at high levels of negative affectivity. The indirect relationship of psychological contract breach to voluntary turnover as mediated by supervisor integrity was also weaker at high levels of negative affectivity. We discuss the implications of these findings for research and practice.

scholarly journals The effects of Psychological Contract Breach on Organizational Citizenship Behavior

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-606
Author(s):  
Jieun Park ◽  
Wonkung Oh ◽  
MinSoo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Psychological Contract Breach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Positive Affectivity ◽  
Contract Breach ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined that the role of dispositional affectivity in the relationship between psychological contract breach and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Based on data from 318 employees, we found that when the levels of promised and delivered inducements of psychological contract breach are equal, employees’ OCB increases the absolute levels of two types of inducements increase. Furthermore, we found that dispositional affectivity moderated the relationship between psychological contract breach and OCB. While positive affectivity strengthened the relationship between the delivered inducements of breach and OCB, negative affectivity moderated the relationship between the promised inducements of breach and OCB. These results contribute the psychological contract literature and employment relationship. Implications are discussed and directions for future research are provided.

scholarly journals The Role of Physiological Contract Breach on Employee Reactions: Moderating Role of Organizational Trust

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-244
Author(s):  
Sumaira Rehman ◽  
Shahzad Ali ◽  
Muhammad Sajjad Hussain ◽  
Aamir Zamir Kamboh
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Organizational Trust ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Psychological Contract Breach ◽  
Contract Breach ◽  
Employee Reactions ◽  
The Relationship

Psychological contract Breach (PCB) play a crucial role to shape employee reactions (ERs) Therefore; this study investigated the possessions of Psychological contract Breach on employee’s reactions (organizational behavior regarding citizenship, job satisfaction) under the moderation of organizational trust. Data were collected from 340 employees of the Health sector by using the technique of simple random sampling. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) technique has been used to check the validity of the data while structure equation modeling (SEM) technique has been used for test the relationship between variables. Our findings revealed that psychological contract breach had negative and significant relationships with employees’ reactions (organizational citizenship behavior, job satisfaction). Further, organizational trust is also significantly moderated on the relationship between PCB and employees’ reactions (organizational behavior regarding citizenship, job satisfaction).

Psychological Contract Breach and Organizational Deviance Behaviour: Mediating Role of Professional Commitment

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-50
Author(s):  
Ganesh Bhattarai ◽  
Dipendra Karki ◽  
Rewan Kumar Dahal
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Psychological Contract Breach ◽  
Professional Commitment ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Organizational Deviance ◽  
Contract Breach ◽  
Government Organization ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship

This study was carried out to measure the direct impact of employees’ psychological contract breach on organizational deviance behavior and professional commitment, direct impact of professional commitment on organizational deviance behavior, and mediating role of professional commitment in the relationship between psychological contract breaches to organizational deviance behavior.  As the respondents, 426 employees working in Nepalese non-profit making organization (i.e. international non-government organization working in Nepalas well as national level non-government organization) were surveyed. were drawn from the analysis of crosses sectional perceptual data adopting quantitative research method, deducting reasoning approach and positivist research philosophy.  Regression analysis, after the confirmatory factor analysis, revealed that (a) employee’s psychological contract breach was positively associated with organizational deviance behavior, (b) employees psychological contract was negatively associated with professional commitment, (c) employees’ professional commitment was negatively associated with organizational deviance behavior, and (d) professional commitment mediated the relationship of psychological contract breach to organizational deviance behavior. Moreover, regarding effect size, the direct effect size of psychological contract breach to predict organizational deviance behavior was .86, and an indirect effect through professional commitment was -.12.Based on the study's conclusion, numbers of theoretical implication and practical implications are suggested.

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