Open AccessOrganizational Change in Distance Higher Education: the Re-negotiation of Employee's Psychological Contract
Author(s) -
Gabriela Topa,
José F. Morales
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
education policy analysis archives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1068-2341
DOI - 10.14507/epaa.v16n12.2008
Subject(s) - psychological contract , psychology , organizational identification , organizational commitment , negotiation , job satisfaction , burnout , social psychology , empirical research , identification (biology) , organizational change , applied psychology , public relations , political science , clinical psychology , philosophy , botany , epistemology , law , biology
The main purpose of this study is to explore empirical relationships of employees' attitudes towards organizational change, the perceived breach of the psychological contract and outcomes such as burnout, job satisfaction and OCB. The proposed model suggests that organizational identification will be a mediator variable in these relationships. Results of an empirical study conducted among university staff (N =150) showed that the model was an adequate fit to the data. Organizational identification mediated the relationship between psychological contract breach and outcomes while attitudes towards organizational change had a direct impact on outcomes.