...Yanghua Zhou Purpose The purpose of this study is to address the research gap and quantitatively examine how the psychological contracts (PCs) between Japanese expatriates and Japanese multinational corporations (MNCs) influence the expatriation success of both Japanese expatriates and Japanese...

... messages found on the Facebook career pages of 30 major MNCs (10 of each in the US, UK and Germany) drawing on a methodological approach combining Grounded Theory and text-mining. Findings Building on the perspective of psychological contracts as sensitizing concept, the analysis of the overall sample...

...Cathy Sheehan; Tse Leng Tham; Peter Holland; Brian Cooper Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of nurses’ experience of the fulfilment of their psychological contract on their intention to leave the nursing profession and to consider employee engagement as a mediator between...

...Severin Hornung; Jürgen Glaser Purpose Investigating employee responses to relational fulfilment of the psychological contract and work‐life benefits of a telecommuting program, this study aims to contribute to the literature on social exchange in employment. Design/methodology/approach...

...Huei‐Fang Chen; Yung‐Ho Chiu Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate the influence of psychological contracts on the adjustment and organisational commitment of expatriates during international business assignments. The study also aims to investigate the influence of psychological...

...Shu‐Cheng Steve Chi; Shu‐Chen Chen Purpose This paper aims to investigate the relationships among repatriates' perceived psychological contract fulfillment, counterfactual thinking, and job attitudes. Design/methodology/approach The paper sampled 135 repatriates from 16 multinational companies...

...Anabella Davila; Marta M. Elvira; Anabella Davila; Marta M. Elvira Purpose The aim of this paper is to use psychological contracts theory to explore performance management practices in Mexico paying particular attention to the impact of national culture, social and structural factors. Design...

...Carol Atkinson; Peter Cuthbert Purpose This paper sets out to investigate the effect of position in the organisational hierarchy on an employee's psychological contract. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents a statistical analysis of secondary data taken from the Working in Britain...