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A study of employee affective organizational commitment and retention in Pakistan: the roles of psychological contract breach and norms of reciprocity
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Quratulain, Samina Khan, Abdul Karim Crawshaw, Jonathan R. Arain, Ghulam Ali Hameed, Imran |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Description | Social exchange theory and notions of reciprocity have long been assumed to explain the relationship between psychological contract breach and important employee outcomes. To date, however, there has been no explicit testing of these assumptions. This research, therefore, explores the mediating role of negative, generalized, and balanced reciprocity, in the relationships between psychological contract breach and employees' affective organizational commitment and turnover intentions. A survey of 247 Pakistani employees of a large public university was analyzed using structural equation modeling and bootstrapping techniques, and provided excellent support for our model. As predicted, psychological contract breach was positively related to negative reciprocity norms and negatively related to generalized and balanced reciprocity norms. Negative and generalized (but not balanced) reciprocity were negatively and positively (respectively) related to employees' affective organizational commitment and fully mediated the relationship between psychological contract breach and affective organizational commitment. Moreover, affective organizational commitment fully mediated the relationship between generalized and negative reciprocity and employees' turnover intentions. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. |
| Related Links | https://publications.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/29319/1/Employee_affective_organisational_commitment_and_retention_in_Pakistan.pdf |
| Ending Page | 2579 |
| Page Count | 28 |
| Starting Page | 2552 |
| ISSN | 09585192 |
| e-ISSN | 14664399 |
| DOI | 10.1080/09585192.2016.1254099 |
| Journal | The International Journal of Human Resource Management |
| Issue Number | 17 |
| Volume Number | 29 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2016-11-16 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: The International Journal of Human Resource Management History and Philosophy of Science Social Psychology Psychological Contract Breach Reciprocity Norms Social Exchange Pakistan |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Business and International Management Strategy and Management Management of Technology and Innovation Industrial Relations Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management |
