Abstract
Employees always expect their employers to fulfil the promises according to the conditions embedded in the employment contract being the factor binding them together, because when the employer fail to meet up with the promises made, it results to psychological employment contract breach. Thus, it has become crucial for employers to uphold prior promises made to employees for the purpose of reciprocated gestures from the employees leading to increased motivation and performance in the organizations. This paper used little number of sample data in examining psychological contract, trust and psychological employment contract breach in Nigeria public universities. More so, it employ the use of SPSS (Version 24) to examine the reliability and cronbach alpha of the measurement instruments, as well as the content and face validity. Academicians and experts were used in the instrument assessment and the pilot study result revealed that the instruments are reliable with evidence of reasonable regularity.
Highlights
All over the world, Universities are considered as the citadel of academic excellence, knowledge, source of intellectualism and above all, the suitable environment for the grooming future leaders (Philip & Adeshola, 2013; Cricelli, Grimaldi & Llanes Dueñas, 2018; Subair, 2014)
The under-developed countries have remain at the basic foundation and incessantly lack the value for the need of taking it with utmost importance (Ajaiya & Usman, 2010; Bukola, 2011), as this led to low attachment on the relevance of the academic employment contracts thereby influencing their perception negatively on the job
It is expected that the government support the lecturers with the appropriate packages in accordance to their employment contract so as to withstand the security challenges bedeviling the nation but reverse is the case(Oriere, 2016; Ogunyemi, 2016).This has led to series of industrial actions and it is on this note that this study intends to look into psychological contract, trust and psychological contract breach in Nigeria public universities
Summary
Universities are considered as the citadel of academic excellence, knowledge, source of intellectualism and above all, the suitable environment for the grooming future leaders (Philip & Adeshola, 2013; Cricelli, Grimaldi & Llanes Dueñas, 2018; Subair, 2014). Previous studies on psychological contract have the same opinion which shows the important role it plays in enhancing employee’s perception regarding their job and employer (Ahmad & Zafar, 2018; Leary-Kelly, Henderson, Anand, & Ashforth, 2014; Rousseau, 1990), but it needs further empirical research on numerous scope, various national cultures and other differences among cross-national (Rousseau & Schalk, 2000; Westwood, Sparrow & Leung, 2001) This is because results from previous studies carried out in other parts of the world cannot be generalized due to cultural differences.
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