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ERIC Number: EJ1030184
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Aug
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0894-8453
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Training and the Commitment of Outsourced Information Technologies' Workers: Psychological Contract Fulfillment as a Mediator
Fontinha, Rita; Chambel, Maria José; De Cuyper, Nele
Journal of Career Development, v41 n4 p321-340 Aug 2014
Outsourced workers in information technologies (IT) generally have high skills and a high value on the job market. Their IT outsourcing organizations are likely to provide them with training, in the first place for skill development, but perhaps also as a way to bind the workers to them. This can be understood along the role of the psychological contract. Outsourced IT workers may see training as a fulfillment of their psychological contract. Accordingly, we hypothesize that psychological contract fulfillment mediates the relationship between training and affective commitment to the IT outsourcer. This was tested in a sample of 158 Portuguese outsourced IT workers. The results showed that employees who considered that they were receiving good training opportunities felt a greater affective commitment to their IT outsourcers. This relationship was mediated by the fulfillment of the relational psychological contract.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Portugal
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