The relationship among psychological contract breach,organizational commitment, and employee's performance

Abstract

Abstract: Based on the on-site interviews and questionnaires of 252 psychological contract breach members, by using the method of SEM, the empirical study indicates that three dimensions of psychological contract breach have a significant negative impact on the staff performance. However, there are impact degree differences caused by the three dimensions. The impact of psychological contract breach on staff performance is through the organizational commitment that functions as an intermediate variable. Organizational commitment serves as a partial intermediate variable in the relationship among interpersonal dimension breach, developmental dimension breach, and staff performance while it serves a total intermediate variable in the relationship between normative dimension breach and staff performance.

Key words: psychological contract breach, staff performance, organizational commitment

CLC Number:

F272.92

Zhang Shengtai, Yang Rui. The relationship among psychological contract breach,organizational commitment, and employee's performance[J]. Science Research Management, 2011, 32(12): 134-142.

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