Psychological contract and its motivational and healthenhancing properties

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-21

  Parzefall, MarjoRiitta ^a   Hakanen, Jari ^b  

^a EBS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Affective psychology; Employees turnover; Psychological contracts; Work psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 75649135275     PISSN: 02683946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02683941011013849     Document Type: Article

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