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Psychological Contract and Turnover Intention: The Moderating Role of Social Network

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It is well known that retaining organizational staff has been a critical challenge for most human resource managers in various industries nowadays. From a managerial perspective, it is more important today than ever before to attract and retain high-quality employees. According to previous studies, many scholars demonstrated that psychological contract has a negative impact on employees' withdrawal behavior. To be specific, two sub-dimensions of psychological contract, the so called relational psychological contract and transactional psychological contract between the employees and organization have an important impact on employees' turnover intention. And in current study, it is highlighted that the effect of social network as a moderator on the relationship between psychological contract and turnover intention.

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      ICEME '19: Proceedings of the 2019 10th International Conference on E-business, Management and Economics
      July 2019
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      ISBN:9781450372190
      DOI:10.1145/3345035

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