The Mediating Role Of Supervisor Support In The Relationship Between Individual Differences And Psychological Contract Breach

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the individual differences that are effective inthe formation of psychological contract breach perception and to examine whetherperceived supervisor support has a mediating role in the effect of these differences.Psychological contract refers to each part’s evaluation regarding what will be Psychological contract breach reflects employee’s assessment that the employer did notbear its responsibilities. It was investigated whether individual differences such aspositive affectivity, equity sensitivity and reciprocation wariness has an impact onpsychological contract breach and it was addressed whether perceived supervisorsupport has a mediating role in the impact of these variables. A field study based onrandom sampling was conducted on a firm having 1500 employees operating in serviceindustry and data were gathered through question forms from 285 employees. Afterdemonstrating the dimensional structures of variables through confirmatory factoranalysis, path analysis was conducted through structural equation modelling. It wasfound that equity sensitivity, reciprocation wariness and positive affectivity didn’t affectpsychological contract breach. But perceived supervisor support was found to have amediation role in the relationship between positive affectivity and psychologicalcontract breach.