The Effect of Social Influence on Psychological Contract Breach Evaluation:How it is Related to Deviant Workplace Behaviour

Authors

  •   Natashaa Kaul Indira School of Business Studies, Pune
  •   Pragna Kaul Oakbrook Business School, Gandhinagar

Keywords:

Psychological Contract Breach Evaluation, Deviant Workplace Behaviour.

Abstract

Psychological Contract (PC) breach has a significant impact on employee behaviour. Most researches have studied how individual characteristics, work characteristics and organizational characteristics influence PCB evaluations. But research has overlooked how the social network i.e. positionally similar others and relational others influence evaluation of PCB. This study proposes a conceptual model exploring these relationships. Also, when an employee perceives breach he/she is likely to show deviant behaviour. This study proposes how PCB and categories of deviance behaviour (interpersonal and organizational deviance) are related and how network characteristics like density, centrality and type of ties (expressive ties) could moderate this relationship. This conceptual paper explores how these relationships could play out.

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Published

2017-07-01

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