Abstract
Orientation: This study aims to analyse the entrepreneurship-driven reasons and characteristics of employee management of the young generation, by analysing the role of psychological contract on employee commitment and organisational citizenship behaviour in the light of the characteristics of the millennial generation as the owners of small and medium-sized enterprises.Research purpose: The main objective of this study was to empirically analyse the effect of the psychological contract and organisational support on the organisational commitment and organisational citizenship behaviour of the employees of small-scale enterprises run by young entrepreneurs, especially in the cohort generation.Motivation for the study: This study attempts to analyse the characteristics of the millennial generation as the owners of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in running the business by examining their managerial characteristics in managing workplace relationship that aims to achieve the stakeholder expectations and improve both commitment and organisational citizenship behaviour of employees.Research design, approach and method: Data were collected in the SMEs owned by young entrepreneurs in a city in Indonesia involving 150 respondents. The research model was tested using Structural Equation Modelling with analysis of moment structure (AMOS).Main findings: The results showed that the employee citizenship behaviour is influenced by the organisational commitment. The commitment of employees was formed by the ability of business owners to understand the needs and expectations of employees regarding opportunities of self-development, pleasant working environment, the benefit as the workload and the work challenge.Practical and managerial implications: This study implies the need for academic institutions and policy makers to get involved in addressing the rising phenomenon of entrepreneurship among the young generation.Contribution and added-value: This study mainly considered the characteristics of young entrepreneurs as the main factor in explaining the success of employee management relationship of SMEs.
Highlights
Entrepreneurship has been a massive movement nowadays affecting the economic level and social conditions of a country (Choi & Majumdar, 2014; Ridley-Duff & Bull, 2015)
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This study empirically examines the effect of psychological contract on the aspects of relational and organisational support to the organisational commitment and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) in small-scale businesses owned by the millennial entrepreneurs
Summary
Entrepreneurship has been a massive movement nowadays affecting the economic level and social conditions of a country (Choi & Majumdar, 2014; Ridley-Duff & Bull, 2015). Innovative products and the pursuit of productivity are the main business activities mainly attributed to entrepreneurship (Koe, Sa’ari, Majid & Ismail, 2012). Every country is arguably willing to do everything possible to encourage the supportive business environment capable of inspiring the emergence of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurial orientation is closely linked with self-initiative and self-employed being generally associated with young people (Burstein, 2013; Ferri-Reed, 2015; Koe et al, 2012). Creating young entrepreneurs and improving their participation will be an effective strategy to promote the level of entrepreneurship (Rahman et al, 2016; Van Praag, 2003). Entrepreneurial programs have been largely examined by scholars and executed by http://www.sajip.co.za
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