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Psychological contract breach and turnover intention: the moderating effects of social status and local ties

The Irish Journal of Management

Volume 36 (2017): Issue 2 (September 2017)

By: Margaret Heffernan and Eoin Rochford

Open Access

|Sep 2017

Figures & tables

Figures & Tables

Proposed model of study.

Table 1

Mean values, standard deviations (S.D.), and correlations of variables

		Mean	S.D.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
1	Age	-	-	1
2	Gender	-	-	0.053	1
3	Current organisational level	-	-	0.263**	-0.069	1
4	Education on enlistment	-	-	0.166**	-0.134*	-0.123	1
5	Rank	-	-	0.471**	0.124	0.385**	-0.317**	1
6	Organisational tenure	-	-	0.613**	0.080	0.359**	-0.322**	0.771**	1
7	PCB	3.28	0.66	-0.012	0.110	-0.163*	0.081	-0.064	-0.062	1
8	Transactional PCB	2.90	0.87	0.113	0.032	-0.011	0.129*	-0.035	0.050	0.676**	1
9	Relational PBC	3.50	0.79	-0.107	0.113	-0.196**	0.023	0.078	-0.120	0.888**	-0.298**	1
10	Social status	-0.38	0.71	0.183**	-0.068	0.420**	-0.045	0.256**	0.196**	-0.352**	-0.055	-0.428**	1
11	Junior Officer-to-Junior Officer CSS	3.65	0.70	-0.187**	0.114	-0.081	-0.011	-0.247**	-0.182*	-0.272**	-0.147	-0.245**	0.188**	1
12	Junior Officer-to-Senior Officer CSS	3.37	0.82	0.059	-0.184*	0.114	0.124	-0.011	0.038	-0.464**	-0.098	-0.569**	0.400**	0.354**	1
13	Turnover intentions	3.28	1.05	0.098	0.200**	-0.021	-0.034	0.259**	0.229**	0.325**	0.091	0.373**	-0.118	-0.202**	-0.329**	1

Valid N (listwise) = 242.

CSS = connectedness; PCB = psychological contract breach

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Table 2

Regression results testing the direct and moderation hypotheses

	Variables	Turnover intentions

		Model 1.2	Model 1.2.1	Model 1.3	Model 1.4	Model 2.3	Model 2.4	Model 3.3	Model 3.4
1
	Control variables
	Age	-0.129	0.098	-0.118	0.094	-0.175	-0.164	-0.157	-0.134
	Gender	-0.145*	-0.152*	-0.147*	0.1389*	-0.153*	-0.150*	-0.137*	-0.127*
	Level	-0.024	0.001	0.012	0.032	-0.070	0.068	0.013	0.015
	Education	0.116	0.135	0.110	0.113	0.142	0.140	0.161*	0.150
	Rank	0.223*	0.182*	0.237*	-0.242*	-0.212	-0.207	-0.202*	-0.201*
	Tenure	0.178	0.209	0.164	0.161	0.175	0.172	0.225*	0.212
2
	Independent variable
	PCB	0.320***		0.308***	0.329***	0.240**	0.248**	0.193**	0.203**
	Transactional PCB		0.029
	Relational PCB		0.395***
	Social status (SS)			0.067	-0.075
	JOCSS					0.099	-0.115
	socss							0.234**	-0.260***
3
	Moderators
	PCB × SS				0.135*
	PCB × JOCSS						0.059
	PCB × SOCSS								0.133*
	R2	0.212	0.256	0.221	0.237	0.179	0.182	0.252	0.268
	Ad R2j	0.188	0.230	0.193	0.207	0.142	0.140	0.225	0.238
	DR2	0.098	0.142		0.106		0.003		0.127
	F	8.847***	9.987***	7.995***	7.767***	4.848***	4.374***	9.228***	8.865***

(standardised coefficients reported).

PCB = psychological contract breach; JOCSS = Junior Officer Connectedness; SOCSS = Senior Officer Connectedness.

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Social status as a moderator of psychological contract breach and turnover intentions.

Junior Officer-to-Senior Officer Connectedness as a moderator of psychological contract breach and turnover intentions. JO = Junior Officer; SO = Senior Officer.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijm-2017-0011 | Journal eISSN: 2451-2834 (formerly 1649-248X) | Journal ISSN: 1649-248X

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Language: English

Page range: 99 - 115

Published on: Sep 28, 2017

Published by: Irish Academy of Management

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 3 issues per year

Keywords:

psychological contract breach,

turnover intention,

social networks,

Related subjects:

Business and economics,

Business management,

Marketing, sales, customer relations,

Management, organization, corporate governance,

Entrepreneurship,

Human resources, labor practice, job and career

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