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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 115-128Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1748-8583.12450
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Collectivism; Culture; employment relationship; psychological contract
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This paper develops a critique of psychologisation by analyzing the concept of the psychological contract and proposes the social contract of work as a way to return to the original focus of the field.
This paper develops the critique of psychologisation by going narrow and deep into the analysis of the concept of the psychological contract. In its early incarnation, the psychological contract literature explored key elements at the heart of the employment relationship. However, in the current mainstream psychological contract literature, there are four key problems. The paper shows that these problems match on to the wider problems associated with pyschologisation. The concept of the social contract of work is put forward as a way to return productively to the original focus of the field. The social contract of work is defined as workers' implicit, collective, and socially embedded understanding of the effort bargain at work.
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