Psychological Contracts and Counterproductive Work Behaviors: Employee Responses to Transactional and Relational Breach

Journal of Business and Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 555-568

  Jensen, Jaclyn M ^a   Opland, Richard A ^b   Ryan, Ann Marie ^c  

^a George Washington University   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contract breach; Counterproductive work behavior; Organizational policies; Personality; Psychological contract; Relational; Transactional

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149498276     PISSN: 08893268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10869-009-9148-7     Document Type: Article

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