An examination of the psychological contract in Thailand

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating perceptions regarding psychological contract breaches, it examined the employees perception, the incongruence between the employee and organization s perceptions, and the employees perceived importance of each type of psychological contract. Neither party perceived that transactional psychological contract was breached. The employee reported the organization had breached the balanced and relational psychological contracts to a certain extent. The organization agreed it had breached the relational contract but not the balanced contract. The employee reported that the balanced and relational contracts were equally important and they were more important than the transactional contract.