Role of Psychological Contract Breach and Violation in Generating Emotional Exhaustion: The Mediating Role of Job Procrastination

Autor: Ali Abdulhassan Abbas, Hussein Hurajah Al Hasnawia
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Management Letters/Cuadernos de Gestión, Vol 20, Iss 3, Pp 15-28 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1131-6837
1988-2157
DOI: 10.5295/cdg.181021aa
Popis: This search aims to study the extent to which Psychological Contract Breach affects and produces Emotional Exhaustion amongst employees through the emergence of a state of procrastination at the level of a sample of daily wage employees in the Colleges of Karbala University in Iraq. The study adopted the measures devised by Suazo (2009) to measure the Psychological Contract Breach and Violation, Strunk et al. (2013) to measure Job Procrastination, and Lewin and Sager (2009) to measure Emotional Exhaustion. The study’s sample consisted of 309 individuals. Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Multiple Regression, and path analysis were used to test the hypotheses, and a number of conclusions were reached. Most importantly, the feeling among employees of Psychological Contract Breach, in turn leading to an increase in their levels of emotional exhaustion, has been explained in detail with the identification of the most important treatments to reduce Psychological Contract Breach in order to reduce the negative results arising from it.
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