Supervisor Psychological Contract Management: Developing an Integrated Perspective on Managing Employee Perceptions of Obligations

✍ Scribed by Maida Petersitzke (auth.)

• Publisher: Gabler Verlag
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 342
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The interest of organisations in the concept of psychological contracts is often limited. This is mainly due to the fact that research on this concept has been presented as highly complex and has not featured any tangible instruments for its application.

Maida Petersitzke provides an overview of the literature on psychological contracts. She presents a four-tier framework that details how organisations can systematically manage the psychological contracts of their employees. Based on an empirical study of line managers and their subordinates, she also identifies ways in which individual line managers can foster positive psychological contracts that are associated with higher degrees of organisational citizenship behaviours and affective commitment towards the organisation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXX
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Definitions and Related Concepts....Pages 15-27
Dimensions, Processes and Outcomes....Pages 29-59
Theoretical Basis of Psychological Contracts....Pages 61-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
An Organisational Perspective on Psychological Contracts....Pages 93-117
Managing Psychological Contracts through Human Resource Practices....Pages 119-129
Supervisor Psychological Contract Management....Pages 131-142
Summary of Literature Review....Pages 143-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Aims and Hypotheses of the Empirical Study....Pages 151-175
Method of the Empirical Study....Pages 177-197
Results....Pages 199-243
Discussion....Pages 245-262
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Conclusions....Pages 265-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-337

✦ Subjects

Personnel Management