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The Relationship between Psychological Contract Fulfillment and Employee Behavior:The Moderating Effect of Personality

In the traditional employment relationship, contract is an essential element to sustain the mutual relationship between employer and employee. In recent years, with the changes of business environment brought forward by the increasing globalization of business and by the dramatic rise in the numbers of mergers and restructurings, there has been a transformation of employment relationship. Psychological contract, a special type of contract, has become increasingly important under such dynamic environment.
After reviewing previous academic researches, we found that the issue about the concept of psychological contract was found in relation with employees¡¦ behavior. Based on the previous opinion, this study expects to prove that psychological contract fulfillment is strongly related to employees¡¦ behavior. We also discuss the moderating effect of personality on the relationship between psychological contract fulfillment and employees¡¦ behavior. We therefore intend to use questionnaire survey and using Taiwanese corporate with intention to prove the hypothesis of this paper.
The major finding of this study are as following¡G
1¡BDifferent types of psychological contracts fulfillment
are positively related to employees¡¦in-role behavior.
2¡BDifferent types of psychological contracts fulfillment
have different impact on organizational citizenship
behaviors directed at other individuals within the
organization.
3¡BPersonality has no moderating effect on the relationship
between psychological contract fulfillment and
employees¡¦ behavior.
4¡BPersonality has strong moderating effect on the
relationship between psychological contract fulfillment
and organizational citizenship behaviors directed at the
organization.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0821106-141747
Date21 August 2006
CreatorsHuang, Chen-ying
ContributorsShyh-jer Chen, Jin-Feng Uen, Liang-Chih Huang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0821106-141747
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