Multiple types of psychological contracts: A six-cluster solution

Human Relations

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1349-1378

  Janssens, Maddy ^a   Sels, Luc ^a   Van den Brande, Inge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VLEKHO School of Managetnent   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Commitment and employability; Employee obligations; Employer obligations; Feature oriented approach; Typology of psychological contracts

Indexed keywords

EID: 1442355241     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00187267035611004     Document Type: Article

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