That's Not What We Was Promised! Psychological Contracts and Quiet Quitting

  • Unique Paper ID: 192923
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 9
  • PageNo: 3992-4005
  • Abstract:
  • Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a Meta-Analysis the find the relation of breach of psychological contract on job satisfaction and job performance, and its future way forward for the development in the area of organizational psychology. Design/methodology/approach: A total 36 articles on the effect of PCB in the area of job satisfaction and job performance published between 1994 and 2017 were reviewed, a possible forthcoming direction towards the area of psychological contract benefiting job satisfaction and job performance. Finding: The tools and techniques for measuring each variable was independent, but while pulling the correlation, the results of the tools used helped to reach to a finding. Here we can also note that each of the tools use are independently powerful to measure each variable. Originality/Value: The research work on psychological contract and its breach was started as motivation to find out the relation among the two and how productivity is affected. More so, further analysis has shown a vivid relation of psychological contract in the field of organizational psychology, and not only the domain but also in organization. In this study researchers have provided a completely new direction to look towards the job satisfaction and attitude.

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BibTeX

@article{192923,
        author = {dr.sromona B},
        title = {That's Not What We Was Promised! Psychological Contracts and Quiet Quitting},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {9},
        pages = {3992-4005},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=192923},
        abstract = {Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a Meta-Analysis the find the relation of breach of psychological contract on job satisfaction and job performance, and its future way forward for the development in the area of organizational psychology. 
Design/methodology/approach: A total 36 articles on the effect of PCB in the area of job satisfaction and job performance published between 1994 and 2017 were reviewed, a possible forthcoming direction towards the area of psychological contract benefiting job satisfaction and job performance. 
Finding: The tools and techniques for measuring each variable was independent, but while pulling the correlation, the results of the tools used helped to reach to a finding. Here we can also note that each of the tools use are independently powerful to measure each variable. 
Originality/Value: The research work on psychological contract and its breach was started as motivation to find out the relation among the two and how productivity is affected. More so, further analysis has shown a vivid relation of psychological contract in the field of organizational psychology, and not only the domain but also in organization. In this study researchers have provided a completely new direction to look towards the job satisfaction and attitude.},
        keywords = {Psychological Contract, Breach, Job Satisfaction, Job Attitude, Job Performance},
        month = {February},
        }

Cite This Article

B, D. (2026). That's Not What We Was Promised! Psychological Contracts and Quiet Quitting. International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology (IJIRT), 12(9), 3992–4005.

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