Exploring the Psychological Contract Breach of Nurses in Healthcare: An Exploratory Study
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/APJBA-03-2021-0102" target="_blank" >10.1108/APJBA-03-2021-0102</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Exploring the Psychological Contract Breach of Nurses in Healthcare: An Exploratory Study
Original language description
Recent advancements in the field of organizational psychology have transformed the employees’ perceptions related to the reactions of the employment relationship. The main aim of the study is to explore the consequences of psychological contracts among nursing staff and how to provide better patient care and quality service in the healthcare system as nurses play a pivotal role in the context of Pakistan. Significantly, this study attempts to bridge the research gap by exploring consequences of psychological contracts. Drawing on the social exchange theory, this study examined the psychological contracts of nurses and their reaction to the perceived violation. This research adopted a qualitative method and based on exploratory approach. Data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews from 21 nurses working in public, private, and charity hospitals of Karachi, Pakistan. The thematic content analysis is employed for the analysis of data by using NVivo software. The study identified the relational and transactional elements related to the psychological contract of nurses who are predominantly consisted of supervisor support, autonomy, tangible/intangible rewards, and trust. The intrinsic motivation which relates to their devotion of work was found as an additional element to balance their psychological contract. This research also establish that the psychological contract of nurses is being violated in their work settings. By highlighting the importance of psychological contract breach, the findings demonstrate that healthcare institutions should take measures to cope up with psychological contract breach issues at the workplace. This study contributes to the body of knowledge by exploring psychological contract breach. Substantially, there are rare studies conducted on psychological contract breach among nurses in the developing country context (Pakistan). However, this study adds to the previous studies related to psychological contract of nurses in the context of Pakistan by using social exchange theories. Finally, this study enables the management of healthcare to balance the psychological contract issues effectively.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50204 - Business and management
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration
ISSN
1757-4323
e-ISSN
1757-4331
Volume of the periodical
neuveden
Issue of the periodical within the volume
neuvedeno
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
nestrankovano
UT code for WoS article
000860429700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85139143537