Purpose: This paper explores whether the concept of psychological contracts underpinned by relational/transactional exchanges provides an adequate description of knowledge workers’ contracts. Methodology: The research approach uses interviews with 10 scientists from within a pre-eminent Australian scientific research and development organisation, the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Researc...

education system and all the employees are responsible to educate all the students who will have social responsibilities in the society in future. education (system) is one the mail sources to develop social and business aspects. this organ needs to have strong leaders to be competitive advantage. this study, as a matter of goal or purpose, is an applied research and the way of collecting the d...

In dynamic change environments the concept of the psychological contracts is tested as organisations pursue more transactional relationships with their employees and as employees are encouraged to pursue protean careers. With such increased emphasis on self-serving personal and organisational strategies, one may question whether a ‘psychological contract’ continues to serve a useful purpose in ...

In IS outsourcing relationship literature, research has focused on detailed legal contracts and partnerships. We investigate the role of psychological contracts between client and vendor in the IS outsourcing context. The aim of this paper is to put the concept “psychological contract commitment” (PCC) under the spotlight, finding out its mediating effects between legal contracts/partnerships a...

We study the rates allowed for the Higgs-mediated decays B0 s,d → μτ, eτ and τ → μμμ, eμμ in supersymmetric seesaw models, assuming that the only source of lepton flavour violation (LFV) is the renormalization of soft supersymmetry-breaking terms due to off-diagonal singlet-neutrino Yukawa interactions. These decays are strongly correlated with, and constrained by, the branching ratios for B0 s...

The employee–employer relationship is said to be affected by extensive workplace transitions, and yet little is known about how employees make sense of these changes while deciding on their responses to them. Our study investigated two factors, social comparison and the nature of the exchanges, as moderators of the effects of psychological contract (i.e., employee beliefs regarding the terms of...

We introduce an abstraction known as an intelligent software decoy for protecting objects within a component-based architecture from egregious and malicious use by mobile agents. If an agent misuses or tries to circumvent the published interface specification of an object, then the object switches from its nominal operating mode to a deception mode. While serving as a decoy, an object attempts ...

Objective: To study the relation of contractual and perceived employment security to employee health. Design: Cross sectional survey. Setting: Municipal sector employees in eight Finnish towns. Participants: 5981 employees with a permanent contract and 2786 employees with a non-permanent contract (2194 fixed term contract, 682 government subsidised contract). Outcome measures: Poor self rated h...

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