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. 2019 Feb 1:10:67.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00067. eCollection 2019.

Work Group Climate and Behavioral Responses to Psychological Contract Breach

Yimo Shen  1 , John M Schaubroeck  2 , Lei Zhao  3 , Lei Wu  1
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Work Group Climate and Behavioral Responses to Psychological Contract Breach

Yimo Shen et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

Drawing on theories of social exchange and social information processing, we examined whether the influence of psychological contract breach on in-role performance and organization-directed citizenship behavior (OCBO) depends on work group climate levels, specifically procedural justice climate and power distance climate. The findings supported our hypothesis that psychological contract breach more strongly influences in-role performance and OCBO among members of units with favorable procedural justice climates. Support for a hypothesized moderating role of power distance climate was less conclusive. We discuss the implications of our model and findings for theories of employee-organization relationships and practice.

Keywords: job performance; organizational citisenship behavior; power distance climate; procedural justice climate; psychological contract breach.

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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Cross-level moderating effects of procedural justice climate on the relationship between psychological contract breach and in-role performance. Simple slopes are –0.18 (p < 0.05) for lower procedural justice climate and –0.56 (p < 0.01) for higher procedural justice climate.
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Cross-level moderating effects of procedural justice climate on relationship between PCB and organization-directed citizenship behavior (OCBO). Simple slopes are –0.03 (ns) for lower procedural justice climate and –0.29(p < 0.05) for higher procedural justice climate.
FIGURE 3
FIGURE 3
Cross-level moderating effects of power distance climate on relationship between PCB and in-role performance. Simple slopes are –0.65 (p < 0.01) for lower power distance climate and –0.10 (ns) for higher power distance climate.
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