Hi, need to submit a 2000 words essay on the topic Using your placement/work experience, you are required to critically analyse the nature of the psychological contract within the workplace and use 2-

Hi, need to submit a 2000 words essay on the topic Using your placement/work experience, you are required to critically analyse the nature of the psychological contract within the workplace and use 2-3 other the.

After knowing about the psychological contract and understanding its effect on part-time as well as the permanent employees of a company, I feel that I am in a better position to apply the concept usefully and to study the implications of a negative turn on the psychological contract. The learning from the notes and research on psychological contracts also allows to me to suggest ways in how a negative impact can be avoided or minimized.

The central point which I came to notice about the two companies was that the cultures of the two organisations are vastly different. Company X was a traditional, bureaucratic and hierarchical company while Company A worked on the lines of a modern, fast moving firm. From the research on the topic, it can be seen that this fact alone is likely to lead to a culture clash (Hendry and Jenkins, 1997). However, the situation was somewhat worsened by the fact that the owners of the new firm decided to create a talent and leadership programme and sought employees who worked with the former Company X to join the programme and lead the business into the future.

While the takeover itself certainly impacted the psychological contract, since as suggested by Garrow (2003), a mergers or an acquisition is one of the toughest storm a psychological contract has to go through. However, the process of identifying and selecting candidates for the new programme had an even bigger impact. Even before the process began there were four categories of employees, who were expected to show an impact the eventual selection results, i.e.:

Robinson and Rousseau (1994) suggest that the psychological contract in all of the cases given above would be impacted differently and this was certainly shown to be true. As per the meaning of the term, psychological contract, it is the implicit contract of understandings between the organisation and the workers as they relate to both the expectations of the employees and the obligations of the