In the context of international assignments, this study investigates psychological contract breach–violation relationship from a multiparty employment perspective. Multiparty refers to arrangements where employees have concurrent contracts with more than one party. Drawing on two waves survey data 221 expatriates, we find both direct relationships and asymmetric spillover effects breach violati...

Trust development is a critical aspect of computersupported cooperative work (CSCW). Trust is especially important in distributed work environments because of the limited amount of social presence afforded by computer-based communication media. Although several studies have studied trust development in computer-mediated environments, very few have researched the reparation of trust, following a...

Article history: Received 10 March 2010 Available online 16 September 2010 This study tested the mediating role of violation in the relationship between breach and both affective and continuance commitment and the extent to which this mediating role is moderated by exchange imbalance amongst a sample of 103 sales personnel. Results suggest that violation mediated the relationship between breach...

Previous research showed that perceptions of psychological contract (PC) breach have undesirable individual and organizational consequences. Surprisingly, the PC literature has paid little to no attention to the relationship between PC breach perceptions and stress. A better understanding of how PC breach may elicit stress seems crucial, given that stress plays a key role in employees' physical...

one of the major challenges towards the programs of organizational improvement and change is resistance to change due to suspicion. for this reason, it is required that organizations identify the triggers of suspicion, trying to control and eliminate the resultant factors. this study was performed among hospital staffs including, sina, shariati and imam khomeini and the sample size was 260. bas...