Psychological Contract and Organizational Commitment amongst Academic Staff in Nigerian Private Universities

Psychological Contract and Organizational Commitment amongst Academic Staff in Nigerian Private Universities

Prof. Abomaye-Nimenibo Williams Aminadokiari Samuel Ph.D., M.Sc., B.Sc. Economics, MBA Management and UD, Personnel Management and Industrial Relations, Director of Postgraduate Studies, School of Postgraduate Studies

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The study investigated the relationship between psychological contract (PC) and organizational commitment (OC) in selected private universities in Nigeria. The study took four dimensions of psychological contract (transitional orientation, relational orientation, the perceived balance of obligations and stage of development of the contract with three measures of organizational commitment; affective, normative and continuance), whereby five private universities (Obong University, Arthur Javis University, Rhema University, Gregory university and Ritman University) were studied. The quasi-experimental design used for the study with a population of four hundred and seventy-seven (477); with a sample size of 218 was determined using the Taro Yamane’s formula. A well-structured questionnaire was adopted as the tool for sampling in the field to obtain data using the simple random sampling method. In testing the hypothesis, the Spearman rank-order correlations coefficient (rho) was the statistical instrument used to test the relationship between dependent and independent variables.

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Prof. Abomaye-Nimenibo Williams Aminadokiari Samuel. 2020. \u201cPsychological Contract and Organizational Commitment amongst Academic Staff in Nigerian Private Universities\u201d. Global Journal of Human-Social Science - H: Interdisciplinary GJHSS-H Volume 20 (GJHSS Volume 20 Issue H7): .

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