<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> In this paper we report the results of a study exploring psychological contract breach (PCB) in a heterogeneous sample of Croatian employees (N=363). In addition to reporting PCB, the participants informed us about their basic demographic characteristics, job attitudes (job satisfaction and organizational commitment) and reported three aspects of their job performance (in-role performance, organizational citizenship behavior, counterproductive work behavior). Our analyses showed that PCB experience depended on participants’ characteristics, and, more importantly, was negatively related to job attitudes and job performance. Thus, the detrimental effect of PCB reported in the organizational behavior literature was replicated among Croatian employees.</p></abstract>

In this paper we report the results of a study exploring psychological contract breach (PCB) in a heterogeneous sample of Croatian employees (N=363). In addition to reporting PCB, the participants informed us about their basic demographic characteristics, job attitudes (job satisfaction and organizational commitment) and reported three aspects of their job performance (in-role performance, organizational citizenship behavior, counterproductive work behavior). Our analyses showed that PCB experience depended on participants’ characteristics, and, more importantly, was negatively related to job attitudes and job performance. Thus, the detrimental effect of PCB reported in the organizational behavior literature was replicated among Croatian employees.

When Employers Betray: A Study of Psychological Contract Breach Among Croatian Employees

University of Zagreb, Faculty of humanities and social sciences, Zagreb,

Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business

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In this paper we report the results of a study exploring psychological contract breach (PCB) in a heterogeneous sample of Croatian employees (N=363). In...

When Employers Betray: A Study of Psychological Contract Breach Among Croatian Employees

Published Online: Dec 22, 2016

Page range: 59 - 70

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zireb-2016-0013

Keywords
organizational behavior, psychological contract, psychological contract breach, job attitudes, job performance

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

When Employers Betray: A Study of Psychological Contract Breach Among Croatian Employees

Published Online: Dec 22, 2016

Page range: 59 - 70

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zireb-2016-0013

Keywordsorganizational behavior, psychological contract, psychological contract breach, job attitudes, job performance

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
organizational behavior, psychological contract, psychological contract breach, job attitudes, job performance