Is the psychological contract worth taking seriously?
回顾了心理契约研究中的概念和实证问题，批评了关于组织无法提供传统职业保障的论调，并提出了一个围绕心理契约成因、内容和后果的初步理论，为政策与研究提供新方向。
Although the psychological contract has become the focus for a body of research, it retains a number of conceptual and empirical problems and challenges. This paper reviews some of the main problems associated with the construct and with the way in which it has been studied. It also considers critically the ‘problem’ of the psychological contract, namely that organizations are either no longer able to promise the traditional organizational career and job security or they violate their promises, and suggests that the novelty of this problem has been overstated. Finally, it sets out a case for retaining the psychological contract as a focus for policy and research and presents an embryonic theory built around the causes, content and consequences of the psychological contract which implies a rather different research agenda to that which has dominated the debates so far. Copyright © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.