When employees behave badly: the roles of contract importance and workplace familism in predicting negative reactions to psychological contract breach |
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| Authors: | Simon Lloyd D. Restubog Thomas J. Zagenczyk Prashant Bordia Robert L. Tang |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Research School of Management, The Australian National University;2. Department of Management, Clemson University;3. School of Management and Information Technology, De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde |
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| Abstract: | In this paper, we examine the influence of contract importance, feelings of violation, and workplace familism on the relationship between psychological contract breach and organizational deviance. Results from a study of 168 supervisor–employee dyads in a pharmaceutical organization suggest that (a) feelings of violation mediated the relationship between perceived breach and supervisor‐rated organizational deviance; (b) relational and transactional contract importance influenced the relationship between breach and feelings of violation such that the relationship was stronger under conditions of high relational and transactional importance; and (c) high levels of workplace familism mitigated the effects of feelings of violation on supervisor‐rated organizational deviance. |
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