DOI: https://doie.org/10.0913/Nerj.2024594313
Sreejana Saha, Neeta D Sharma, Jaya Rani, Ajeya Jha , Samrat Kumar Mukherjee
Keywords:Psychological Contract, Psychological Contract Formation, Demographic Variables (Gender, Age, Designation, Experience).
A better understanding of psychological contract can help reduce organizational stress, increase performance and job satisfaction, and develop a pool of highly dedicated employees. The study was conducted in the Indian private sector universities (N=393) to determine the impact of demographic factors (gender, age, designation, and experience) and other personal attributes of the academics on their perceived psychological contract. This study will contribute to psychological contract literature, especially in the Indian context by thoroughly examining the impact of demographics on the psychological contract types (transactional, relational, and balanced contract). Results revealed that there was no significant impact of the demographic variable on psychological contact. However, gender and age were found to have a small positive impact on transactional and relational psychological contract. The results of this study can be referred by the future researchers to further examine the impact of other important demographic factors or personal characteristics of the academic staff in the Indian education sector or for further study on the formation of psychological contract in general.