Psychological Contract Against the Background of Relationships
Changes Between Employee and Employer Cover Image

Kontrakt psychologiczny na tle zmian relacji w diadzie pracownik – pracodawca
Psychological Contract Against the Background of Relationships Changes Between Employee and Employer

Author(s): Anna Rogozińska-Pawełczyk
Subject(s): Economy, Business Economy / Management, Accounting - Business Administration, Business Ethics
Published by: Społeczna Akademia Nauk
Keywords: psychological contract; new psychological contract; organizational change; generations; individual differences; mutual expectations and obligations

Summary/Abstract: Globalization and rapid technological development have led many organizations to change the style of management caused by mergers and acquisitions, as well as changing the organizational structure and reducing employment. In the last two decades, organizational changes and the nature of the employment relationship between employer and employee following the past have undergone fundamental changes affecting the shape of psychological contracts. However, it was not clear how the psychological contracts themselves change. This article is part of the current of theoretical considerations aiming at understanding the causes and directions of transformations of the informal relations of mutual expectations regarding various aspects of the work situation and the organizational functioning between the employee and the employer. The conducted analysis of the subject literature allowed to outline the architecture of the new psychological contract. In the further part of the article, the ambiguous analyzed research results were interpreted in orderto provide the basis for further exploration. Based on two perspectives: organizational and employee, the factors influencing the changes in the psychological contract were indicated. In addition, the article contains explanations on how organizational changes and changes in the value and expectations of individual employees can affect the shape of a psychological contract.

  • Issue Year: 20/2019
  • Issue No: 6.3
  • Page Range: 171-184
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish