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The Relationship among Psychological Contracts, Self-Efficacy, and Employee Knowledge Learning Aspirations.

Diverse employment nowadays, such as short-term hiring, human resource outsourcing, flexible worktime, and part-time appointment, shows the coming age of a diversified employing. This phenomenon derives a changing relationship between organizations and employees. Through this change, how to perceive and further motivate knowledge worker to achieve optimal labor output becomes an important issue. Different interpretation on psychological contract is a result of different personal perception, sense of value, and message interpretation.
Therefore, this thesis sees the personal psychological contract as independent variable and investigates how personal psychological contract plays a role in personal knowledge intake. Furthermore, this thesis also sees self-efficacy as intervening variable and analyzes how self-efficacy involves in personal psychological contract and knowledge learning aspirations of employees.Based on the data from 993 employees from 80 firms analyzing, the researcher obtained the following findings:
1. The difference:
a. Gender, educational degree, and job position revealed difference with regard to psychological contract.
b. Gender, marriage, age, educational degree, and job position revealed difference with regard to firm-specific knowledge learning aspiration.
e. Marriage, Age and job position revealed difference with regard to general knowledge learning aspiration.
2. The relationship:
a. Relational and balanced psychological contracts are positively related to firm-specific knowledge learning aspiration.
b. Transactional psychological contract has negative relation with firm-specific knowledge learning aspiration.
c. Self-efficacy is positively related with general and specific knowledge learning aspiration.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0209106-145341
Date09 February 2006
CreatorsChi, Chia-hui
ContributorsMin-chu Yu, Christina yu-ping Wang, Bih-Shiaw Jaw
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-0209106-145341
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