Job insecurity and emotional exhaustion: Testing psychological contract breach versus distributive injustice as indicators of lack of reciprocity

Work and Stress

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 246-263

  Piccoli, Beatrice ^a   De Witte, Hans ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

distributive injustice; emotional exhaustion; Job insecurity; psychological contract breach; social exchange theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943456814     PISSN: 02678373     EISSN: 14645335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678373.2015.1075624     Document Type: Article

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