Psychological Contract Imbalance and Management of Enterprise Research and Development Personnel.docVIP

Psychological Contract Imbalance and Management of Enterprise Research and Development Personnel 　　Abstract This paper begins with the definitions of psychological contract imbalance and EVLN behaviors. Then， a theory is proposed to further study the influencing model of EVLN behaviors of psychological contract imbalance on enterprise Research and Development （RD） personnel. A demonstrative research has been done through questionnaires with the researchers in one of the aircraft design institutes in China. Based on previous studies， statistics analysis has been accomplished with the analysis methods of factor， correlation， path， and regression. Therefore， on the basis of validated hypothesis， the conception and countermeasure are proposed for the psychological contract imbalance and management of enterprise RD personnel. 　　Key words： Research and development （RD） personnel； Psychological contract imbalance； Management 　　 INTRODUCTION 　　The phenomena of psychological contract imbalance of would result in different work attitude and behaviour on institution researchers. Thus， the study on influential factors on RD personnel， as well as the impact of researchers’attitude and behavior on the stability and development of scientific research institutions is a topic which is evitable and of significant practical meaning. 　　 1. LITERATURE REVIEW AND DEFINITION 　　1.1 Psychological Contract Imbalances 　　The definition of psychological contract imbalance is widely used in existing studies； some scholars name it as psychological contract breach， which means the individual cognitive evaluation when organisation breaks the promise to personnel. Others call it as psychological contract violation； it is defined as the individual emotional experience when organization failed to fulfill the promise. In practice， these two concepts are often mix used， even though many studies are so-called psychological contract violation but the research fall into the category of psycholog