Psychological contract breach and turnover intention: the moderating effects of social status and local ties

Margaret Heffernan; Eoin Rochford

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Psychological contract breach and turnover intention: the moderating effects of social status and local ties

Margaret Heffernan

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Eoin Rochford

| Sep 28, 2017

The Irish Journal of Management

Volume 36 (2017): Issue 2 (September 2017)

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Published Online: Sep 28, 2017

Page range: 99 - 115

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijm-2017-0011

Keywords
psychological contract breach, turnover intention, social networks, social status, connectedness, local ties, defence forces

© 2017 Margaret Heffernan and Eoin Rochford

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Social status as a moderator of psychological contract breach and turnover intentions.

Junior Officer-to-Senior Officer Connectedness as a moderator of psychological contract breach and turnover intentions. JO = Junior Officer; SO = Senior Officer.

Mean values, standard deviations (S.D.), and correlations of variables

		Mean	S.D.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
1	Age	-	-	1
2	Gender	-	-	0.053	1
3	Current organisational level	-	-	0.263 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	-0.069	1
4	Education on enlistment	-	-	0.166 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	-0.134 p< 0.05(two-tailed).	-0.123	1
5	Rank	-	-	0.471 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	0.124	0.385 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	-0.317 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	1
6	Organisational tenure	-	-	0.613 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	0.080	0.359 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	-0.322 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	0.771 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	1
7	PCB	3.28	0.66	-0.012	0.110	-0.163 p< 0.05(two-tailed).	0.081	-0.064	-0.062	1
8	Transactional PCB	2.90	0.87	0.113	0.032	-0.011	0.129 p< 0.05(two-tailed).	-0.035	0.050	0.676 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	1
9	Relational PBC	3.50	0.79	-0.107	0.113	-0.196 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	0.023	0.078	-0.120	0.888 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	-0.298 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	1
10	Social status	-0.38	0.71	0.183 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	-0.068	0.420 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	-0.045	0.256 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	0.196 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	-0.352 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	-0.055	-0.428 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	1
11	Junior Officer-to-Junior Officer CSS	3.65	0.70	-0.187 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	0.114	-0.081	-0.011	-0.247 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	-0.182 p< 0.05(two-tailed).	-0.272 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	-0.147	-0.245 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	0.188 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	1
12	Junior Officer-to-Senior Officer CSS	3.37	0.82	0.059	-0.184 p< 0.05(two-tailed).	0.114	0.124	-0.011	0.038	-0.464 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	-0.098	-0.569 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	0.400 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	0.354 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	1
13	Turnover intentions	3.28	1.05	0.098	0.200 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	-0.021	-0.034	0.259 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	0.229 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	0.325 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	0.091	0.373 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	-0.118	-0.202 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	-0.329 p< 0.01 level (two-tailed);	1

Regression results testing the direct and moderation hypotheses

	Variables	Turnover intentions

		Model 1.2	Model 1.2.1	Model 1.3	Model 1.4	Model 2.3	Model 2.4	Model 3.3	Model 3.4
1
	Control variables
	Age	-0.129	0.098	-0.118	0.094	-0.175	-0.164	-0.157	-0.134
	Gender	-0.145 p <0.05	-0.152 p <0.05	-0.147 p <0.05	0.1389 p <0.05	-0.153 p <0.05	-0.150 p <0.05	-0.137 p <0.05	-0.127 p <0.05
	Level	-0.024	0.001	0.012	0.032	-0.070	0.068	0.013	0.015
	Education	0.116	0.135	0.110	0.113	0.142	0.140	0.161 p <0.05	0.150
	Rank	0.223 p <0.05	0.182 p <0.05	0.237 p <0.05	-0.242 p <0.05	-0.212	-0.207	-0.202 p <0.05	-0.201 p <0.05
	Tenure	0.178	0.209	0.164	0.161	0.175	0.172	0.225 p <0.05	0.212
2
	Independent variable
	PCB	0.320 p <0.001		0.308 p <0.001	0.329 p <0.001	0.240 p <0.01	0.248 p <0.01	0.193 p <0.01	0.203 p <0.01
	Transactional PCB		0.029
	Relational PCB		0.395 p <0.001
	Social status (SS)			0.067	-0.075
	JOCSS					0.099	-0.115
	socss							0.234 p <0.01	-0.260 p <0.001
3
	Moderators
	PCB × SS				0.135 p <0.05
	PCB × JOCSS						0.059
	PCB × SOCSS								0.133 p <0.05
	R2	0.212	0.256	0.221	0.237	0.179	0.182	0.252	0.268
	Ad R2j	0.188	0.230	0.193	0.207	0.142	0.140	0.225	0.238
	DR2	0.098	0.142		0.106		0.003		0.127
	F	8.847 p <0.001	9.987 p <0.001	7.995 p <0.001	7.767 p <0.001	4.848 p <0.001	4.374 p <0.001	9.228 p <0.001	8.865 p <0.001

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Psychological contract breach and turnover intention: the moderating effects of social status and local ties

Article Category: Research Article

Published Online: Sep 28, 2017

Page range: 99 - 115

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijm-2017-0011

Keywords
psychological contract breach, turnover intention, social networks, social status, connectedness, local ties, defence forces

© 2017 Margaret Heffernan and Eoin Rochford

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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Mean values, standard deviations (S.D.), and correlations of variables

Regression results testing the direct and moderation hypotheses

Psychological contract breach and turnover intention: the moderating effects of social status and local ties

Article Category: Research Article

Published Online: Sep 28, 2017

Page range: 99 - 115

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijm-2017-0011

Keywordspsychological contract breach, turnover intention, social networks, social status, connectedness, local ties, defence forces

© 2017 Margaret Heffernan and Eoin Rochford

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 3

Mean values, standard deviations (S.D.), and correlations of variables

Regression results testing the direct and moderation hypotheses

Keywords
psychological contract breach, turnover intention, social networks, social status, connectedness, local ties, defence forces