The effect of perceived adherence to psychological contract on citizenship performance among employees of a industrial company: Mediating role of organizational loyalty

Subject Areas : Educational

Amir Hemmat panah ¹ , Ali Mehdad ² , Zahra Farsi ³

1 - Organizational Psychology, Islamic Azad University Isfahan (khorasgan) Branch, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Associate Professor Islamic Azad university, Industrial and Organizational Psychology (khorasgan ) Branch, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Community Health Department, Faculty of Nursing, AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2017-01-18 Accepted : 2018-02-14 Published : 2018-05-22

Keywords: industrial company, psychological contract, citizenship performance, organizational loyalty,

Abstract :

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of perceived adherence to psychological contract on citizenship performance and mediating role of organizational loyalty among an industrial company. In this study, 226 people through conveniance sampling were selected. Tools included Rousseau Adherence to Psychological Contracts (1995), Lee and Allen Organizational Citizenship Behavior (2002) and Kumar and Shekhar Organizational Loyalty Questionnaire (2012). Data was analyzed with SPSS software (version 18) using descriptive-analytical statistics such as coefficient and Structural Equation. Results showed that There was a significant Direct effect on transactional psychological contract and organizational loyalty (p<0.01,0.001), and on relational psychological contract and organizational loyalty (p<0.05,0.06), and also on significant Direct effect organizational loyalty and the performance of the citizens (p<0.01, 0.001).The results of the structural equation analysis showed that transactional psychological contract and organizational loyalty first, and then through organizational loyalty effected theperformance of citizens and communicational psychological contract, also directly effected the performance of citizens. Hence, it can be concluded adherence to psychological contracts are important anticipations for the performance of corporation citizenship. on the other hand, Commitment to the psychological contract increases organizational loyalty and organizational loyalty provides all the conditions for performance of the citizens.

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