Psychological Contract, Organizational Commitment and Work Satisfaction Survey of Researchers in Chinese State-Owned Engineering Research Institutions文档.pdf

Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2014, 2, 217-225 Published Online September 2014 in SciRes. /journal/jss /10.4236/jss.2014.29037 Psychological Contract, Organizational Commitment and Work Satisfaction: Survey of Researchers in Chinese State-Owned Engineering Research Institutions Jianwu Zhou, Michel Plaisent, Lili Zheng, Prosper Bernard La Rochelle Business School, Finland Email: zhengl@esc-larochelle.fr Received July 2014 Abstract This research analyzed the effect of knowledge workers’ psychological contract on organizational commitment and work satisfaction. Data was collected thru a questionnaire survey given to 517 randomly selected Chinese knowledge workers in two state-owned engineering research institu- tions. The questionnaire contained items about the demographic profile of the respondents, psy- chological contract, organizational commitment and work satisfaction. The last three items were answered using a Likert rating scale ranging from 1 to 5 (strongly disagree to strongly agree). De- scriptive statistics of the information on demographics was done together with reliability analysis, Pearson correlation and multiple regression of the data on the last three items on the question- naire. The two dimensions of psychological contract were found to have a significant positive cor- relation with organizational commitment and work satisfaction. The three dimensions of organi- zational commitment were found to have a significant positive correlation with work satisfaction. From the regression model it was found that the fulfillment of knowledge workers’ psychological contract contributed to the development of increased organizational commitment which in turn contributed to increased knowledge workers’ job satisfaction level.