... the mediating role of psychological contract breach. Meanwhile, coworker exchange moderated the negative relationship between narcissistic leadership and happiness at work. Originality/value By uncovering psychological contract breach as the mechanism through which narcissistic leadership erodes happiness...

... be influenced by engagement and that this influence would be less significant when there is a psychological contract breach and more significant in the presence of supervisor support. Design/methodology/approach Time-lagged data were collected using a field survey research design. The participants included...

.../methodology/approach We draw on longitudinal survey data, along with objective data on actual employee turnover from organizational records. Findings We find opposing mediating pathways between psychological contract breach and employee turnover, via dilemmatic commitments where the effect of breach...

...Rachel M. Saef; Tine Köhler; Andrew Jebb Purpose Using Hirschman's Exit–Voice–Loyalty–Neglect (EVLN) framework, this study examines the dual-moderating role of the big five personality traits in shaping workers' behavioral responses to psychological contract breach. Building from calls...

... cyberloafing behavior via psychological contract breach, especially when employee needs for relatedness is high. Design/methodology/approach To test the hypotheses, the authors conducted a multi-wave, multi-source field study with 185 paired employee–leader dyads at three time points. The hypotheses were...

...Sandra Costa; Pedro Neves Purpose Using insights from attributions, planned behavior, and fairness theories, this study examines the effect of blame attributions of psychological contract breach on employees’ attitudes (affective organizational commitment) and behaviors (organizational citizenship...

...J.C. Peng; Jia-Jing Jien; Julian Lin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate store-level servant leadership and the procedural justice climate (PJC) as key antecedents for employee-perceived psychological contract breach (PCB) and explores the mediating roles of PCB...

..., this study provides new insights into layoff and HR literatures from psychological contract and justice perspectives. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Case studies Human resource management Layoffs Organizational justice Psychological contract breach Unemployment Finland Contracts...

...Mark M. Suazo; Eugene F. Stone‐Romero Purpose This study aims to investigate the assumed direct and indirect effects of psychological contract breach (breach) on supervisor‐rated employee behaviors of in‐role performance, organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) directed at an individual (OCBI...