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Exploring temporal changes in obligated and delivered inducements-a dynamic systems perspective
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Stress Research Institute. University of Calgary, Canada.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4106-0734
Number of Authors: 32020 (English)In: European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, ISSN 1359-432X, E-ISSN 1464-0643, Vol. 29, no 2, p. 183-199Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The psychological contract (PC) is a dynamic process, where employees actively and passively adjust their perceptions of obligated and delivered inducements. In this study, we focus on the temporal changes in employee's perceptions of obligated and delivered inducements and show that these micro-level dynamics take place at every stage through the PC process. We introduce a dynamic systems perspective to understand these temporal fluctuations. We show that employees' perceptions of obligated and delivered inducements interact with each other and form a dynamic system. We compared daily and weekly time-frames and found that the daily time-frame maximizes the temporal fluctuations of employees' perceptions of obligated and delivered inducements, whereas the weekly frame captures more complex trajectories. Furthermore, inducements that are explicitly communicated demonstrate more temporal fluctuations than inducements that are not explicitly communicated. We advance PC theory by providing more understanding of the temporal dynamics of employees' perceptions of obligated and delivered inducements. We provide practical guidelines for the choice of an ideal time-frame to study employees' perceptions of obligated and delivered inducements, depending on the specific inducements and the aim of the research. We propose that researchers further integrate dynamic systems theory into PC models.

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2020. Vol. 29, no 2, p. 183-199
Keywords [en]
psychological contract, dynamic system, temporal dynamics, within-person variation, time-frame comparison
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Psychology
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Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-180585DOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2020.1725621ISI: 000519365900001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-180585DiVA, id: diva2:1425565
Available from: 2020-04-21 Created: 2020-04-21 Last updated: 2022-02-26Bibliographically approved

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