주재원의 심리적 계약위반 인지가 직무소진에 미치는 영향

Abstract

With the recent attention to expatriate management increasing in high uncertainty, this study focused on the job burnout of expatriates as a topic organizations should be interested in. Building on psychological contract perspective, this study casts career growth opportunity and feeling of violation as an explanatory mechanism to explain why expatriates’ psychological contract breach results in harm to expatriates’ job burnout - emotional exhaustion and cynicism. The study, using survey data from 210 expatriates in 34 countries working at large Korean companies found that the psychological contract breach perceived by the expatriates had a positive effect on emotional exhaustion, but did not significantly affect cynicism. However, it was found that psychological contract breach had a positive effect on cynicism through career growth opportunities of expatriates and had a positive effect on emotional exhaustion and cynicism through feeling of violation. This study expands and complements the social exchange theory-oriented discussion on the psychological contract theory and provides practical implications for the management of expatriates by showing the relationship between psychological contract breach and job burnout.