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Psychological Contract Breach and Voluntary Behavioral Outcomes:A Moderated-Mediation Model


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3 Goa Institute of Management, Sanquelim, Porieum, Goa-403505, India
     

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Voluntary employee behaviors can lead to sustainable competitive advantage when manifested as citizenship behaviors and they can also bleed the organization if manifested as deviant behaviors. The Indian IT industry has been in a stage of consolidation and is isomorphic in nature, thus making this topic a fertile ground for research. The purpose of this research is to study the connection among breach of Psychological Contract (PCB) and voluntary behavioral outcomes of Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) and Workplace Deviant Behavior (WDB). The paper reports that PCB is negatively related to OCB and relates positively to WDB. OCB mediated the relationship between WDB and PCB. Transactional contract moderates all three relationships between PCB-WDB, PCB-OCB and OCB-WDB whereas relational contract only moderates the relationship between PCB and OCB. The study provides insights into the moderating effect of PC in the case of breach and its voluntary behavioral outcomes.

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Deviant Workplace Behavior, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Psychological Contract, Relational Contract, Transactional Contract.
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Authors

Mita Sharma
Passion Vista Magazine, Kutuzovsky Avenue, 3, Entrance No. 1, Flat No. 12, Floor 3, Moscow 121248, Russian Federation
Jatin Pandey
Indian Institute of Management Indore, Prabandh Shikhar, Ran-Pithampur Road, Indore-453556, Madhya Pradesh, India
Anamika Sinha
Goa Institute of Management, Sanquelim, Porieum, Goa-403505, India

Abstract


Voluntary employee behaviors can lead to sustainable competitive advantage when manifested as citizenship behaviors and they can also bleed the organization if manifested as deviant behaviors. The Indian IT industry has been in a stage of consolidation and is isomorphic in nature, thus making this topic a fertile ground for research. The purpose of this research is to study the connection among breach of Psychological Contract (PCB) and voluntary behavioral outcomes of Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) and Workplace Deviant Behavior (WDB). The paper reports that PCB is negatively related to OCB and relates positively to WDB. OCB mediated the relationship between WDB and PCB. Transactional contract moderates all three relationships between PCB-WDB, PCB-OCB and OCB-WDB whereas relational contract only moderates the relationship between PCB and OCB. The study provides insights into the moderating effect of PC in the case of breach and its voluntary behavioral outcomes.

Keywords


Deviant Workplace Behavior, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Psychological Contract, Relational Contract, Transactional Contract.

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