TY - JOUR
T1 - When employees behave badly
T2 - The roles of contract importance and workplace familism in predicting negative reactions to psychological contract breach
AU - Restubog, Simon Lloyd D.
AU - Zagenczyk, Thomas J.
AU - Bordia, Prashant
AU - Tang, Robert L.
PY - 2013/3
Y1 - 2013/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2013.01046.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2013.01046.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84875319455
SN - 0021-9029
VL - 43
SP - 673
EP - 686
JO - Journal of Applied Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Applied Social Psychology
IS - 3
ER -