Tuesday, October 29, 2019



The psychological contract in HRM

Psychological contracts are defined by the relationship between an employer and an employee where there are unwritten mutual expectations for each side. 

The psychological contract expresses the combination of beliefs held by an individual and his or her employer about what they expect from one another.(Armstrong, 2009;p.297).

Psychological contracts are based on promises and expectations between the parties in the employment relationship. Those are employers, managers, individual employees, and work colleagues.


Psychological contracts are mainly divided into two Sections,

11.      Relational Psychological contracts
These are focused on stress interdependence of the organization and social exchange, which is more long term and involve stronger emotional attachments These are related to McGregor’s TheoryY
22.      Transactional Psychological contracts
These are focused more on the explicit elements of the contract without accounting much for the intrinsic qualities of workers. Which are, by and large, shorter-term monetary-based exchanges. These are related to McGregor’s TheoryX.

Relational and transactional contracts


The Psychological Contract is interesting for many reasons since it offers many diverse points of view. Further, it’s not an apparatus or prepares. The psychological contract may be demonstrated which can guide us in the way we structure manager organizations and deal with employees in the respective organization. The Psychological Contract makes different pioneers to get how to adjust their people’s needs with those of the organization.




References:-

Ballou, Nichole Simone, "The Effects of Psychological Contract Breach on Job Outcomes" (2013). Master's Theses. 4327.


31 comments:

  1. Well explained about most important and rarly considerable areas.

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  2. Hi Lasitha, excellent topic, clearly explained.great that you have getICE BERG model to your article,lot to gain

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  3. Well explained very important article

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  4. Article is very precise; easy to grab the points. super work Lasitha;

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  5. Good article and very interesting to read.

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  6. An important topic. Well described. Good job Lasitha

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  7. Whatever the references listed should have been cited in the main text. In other words, only cited reference should be listed as references.

    Please follow the Harvard reference and citation style.

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  8. What are the implications of the psychological contract in the context of our trade.An important point we need to understand in streamlining the strategy to HRM in our organizations.

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  9. The psychological contract can be defined as a key characteristic of HRM as it is directly connected with the organizational commitment. Organizational commitment is actually a result of psychological contract (Rousseau, 1995) & accordingly the psychological contract has an important effect on employees as it is guaranteeing to provide high level of reward, pay for performance, promotion and development.

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  10. Well explained. Very important article

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