Le contrat psychologique et l'engagement organisationnel: une exploration empirique

Abstract

The goal of this research is to clarify, through comparative quantitative analysis, the effects of psychological contract violation on individual organizational commitment in a federal (Canadian), public organization and a private firm, both located in Quebec, in light of individual, organizational, and situational characteristics. In simplifying the results presented in the following pages, let us keep in mind that the significant difference between the public organization and the private firm concerning psychological contract violation is low (p <_ 0,05). The results of multivariate regressions suggest that violation of the psychological contract explains an important part of the variance of organizational commitment (affective and moral), just as much as they suggest that individual variables such as certain career anchors, career orientation, and locus of control exercise the most influence on organizational commitment.