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The ‘problem’ of the psychological contract considered

✍ Scribed by Denise M. Rousseau

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
88 KB
Volume
19
Category
Article
ISSN
0894-3796

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✦ Synopsis

David Guest's (1998) complaint about the problem' of the psychological contract gives me a welcome opportunity to comment on the distinctiveÐand perhaps misunderstoodÐaspects of the concept of the psychological contract'. I believe that Guest's argument is based upon a series of misconceptions regarding psychological contracts and related empirical research. The purpose of this commentary is to respond to key misinterpretations and redress their potential averse eects on our understanding of psychological contracts and the role they play in human behaviour.

Guest's ®rst misconception is the foundation of all that follow: that the psychological contract is based upon a metaphor inappropriately borrowed from law. 1 My response to this assertion mirrors the sentiments re¯ected in a 1980's bumper sticker: `The Moral Majority is Neither'. There are two misconstructions in Guest's statement: ®rst, that the psychological contract is an inappropriate borrowing from law; and second, that it is a metaphor rather than a scienti®c construct.

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