Psychological Contract and Workers Commitment in Oil Companies in Nigeria
Keywords:
Psychological Contract; Workers Commitment; Transactional psychological contract; Workers Continuance Commitment; Workers Normative CommitmentAbstract
We in the study looked at the relationship between physiological contract and workers commitment in oil companies in Nigeria. A survey/ cross sectional approach was adopted with a study population of 700 staff from 4 oil companies. The krejcie and Morgan table was used to determine a sample size of 248. Out of the 248 copies of questionnaires that were distributed only 240 copies were retrieved and used for the analysis. The study stated and tested four hypothesis, the result of the hypotheses indicated a significant relation between the dimensions of psychological contract and the measures of workers commitment. In line with the findings the study results shows that there is a significant relationship between employee psychological contract and worker’s commitment in the oil companies in Nigeria. Deriving from the findings, the researcher recommends that managers of the oil companies should try as much as possible to circumvent breach of physiological contract, because its implication could lead to low productivity, resulting from moral breakdown and increase rate of turnover.
How to cite this article: Johnson UU, Oyoroh PL, Emmanuel SH et al. Psychological Contract and Workers Commitment in Oil Companies in Nigeria. J Adv Res Oper Markt Mgmt 2019; 2(2): 16-29.
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