Introduction - Charting directions for a new research era: Addressing gaps and advancing scholarship in the study of psychological contracts?1. The influence of social interaction on the dynamics of employees psychological contracting in digitally transforming organizations?2. Exploring temporal changes in obligated and delivered inducements: A dynamic systems perspective?3. Towards a social-cognitive theory of multiple psychological contracts?4. When AI meets PC: Exploring the implications of workplace social robots and a human-robot psychological contract?5. What do we measure and how do we elicit it? The case for the use of repertory grid technique in multi-party psychological contract research?6. From top gun to the daily grind: Contextualizing psychological contract breach for military pilots?7. Diversity climate promises in ideological psychological contracts: Racial differences in responses to breach and fulfilment?8. Contextualizing psychological contracts research: A multi-sample study of shared individual psychological contract fulfilment?9. Affective commitment, trust, and the psychological contract: Contributions matter, too!
This book acknowledges the significant changes in the context and contours of the traditional employee-employer relationship over the last several decades and highlights the emergence of exciting new directions for the study of psychological contracts (PC).
Sarah Bankins is Associate Professor in the Department of Management at Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Sarah's research focuses on the future of work and the use of AI in different contexts. Her research is interdisciplinary, and she works with colleagues in fields like complc