The Relationship between Psychological Contract Breach and Job Involvement under Mergers and Acquisitions Circumstances: The Mediating Effect of Perceived Organizational Justice

Lydia Ya-Wen Chang ； Jane Yi-Chun Lin

《科際整合管理研討會》 2014第17屆 (2014/06) Pp. 508-522

https://doi.org/10.6495/CIMBM.2014.035

並列摘要

The purpose of the study aims to investigate the relationships among psychological contract breach (independent variable), job involvement (dependent variable) and perceived organizational justice (mediating variable) in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) enterprises in Taiwan. To be more specific, this study has two main objectives. First, the authors explored the relationship between psychological contract breach and job involvement. Second, the authors tested the mediating effect of perceived organizational justice on psychological contract breach and job involvement. This study utilized the quantitative approach and the data was collected by paper- based and online questionnaires. The valid samples were 282 employees who have experienced M&A process and still continued to work in the remained companies. CFA was conducted to assess the model fit and the hypotheses were tested by hierarchical regression analysis. The results showed that psychological contract breach was significantly negative correlated to job involvement. The organizational justice had a mediating effect on the relationship between psychological contract breach and job involvement. Therefore, when companies face M&A situations, employees perceived organizational justice as an important factor, which have impact on their job involvement; even if they feel that the company violated the psychological contract with them.

並列關鍵字

Psychological Contract Breach ； Job Involvement ； Perceived Organizational Justice ； Mergers and Acquisitions