Impact of psychological contract on employee outcomes of job satisfaction and organizational commitment: evidence from a leading apparel manufacturing company in Sri Lanka

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2016

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Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

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The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of psychological contract on employee outcomes of job satisfaction and organizational commitment in a leading apparel company. Companies that invest more effort in achieving higher level psychological contract between their employees, employer and organization have satisfied and committed employees. The research design is descriptive in nature. A simple random sampling has been used to select the sample. The participant in the study was 50 executive level employees in a leading apparel company in Sri Lanka. Standard questionnaire is distributed to collect data. Based on the analysis, researcher identified that there is a strong positive relationship between psychological contract and employee outcomes of job satisfaction and organizational commitment. As well as based on findings researchers established that there is a significant impact of psychological contract and employee outcomes of job satisfaction and organizational commitment.

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Job satisfaction, Organizational commitment, Psychological contract

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Nishanthi, H. M., & Mahalekamge, W. G. S. (2016). Impact of psychological contract on employee outcomes of job satisfaction and organizational commitment: evidence from a leading apparel manufacturing company in Sri Lanka. Kelaniya Journal of Human Resource Management, 11(2), 74-86. https://doi.org/10.4038/kjhrm.v11i2.30

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