La vigencia del contrato psicológico: Aproximaciones teóricas y empíricas desde las Américas

Abstract

The continuous changes that characterize the world of work and labor relations today change in various ways the perceptions, expectations and beliefs of workers and employers regarding the content and fulfillment of their commercial relations. Thus, these perceptions, expectations and beliefs configure psychological contracts which define the framework of the interactions between individuals and organizational agents and influence their attitudes, behaviors and decisions as well. That’s why the psychological contract constitutes a fundamental element for understanding the psychosocial processes involved in labor relations. This book aims to offer an overview of the diversity that characterizes the conceptual reflection and research on the psychological contract carried out from various countries in the Americas. Researchers from Colombia, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Brazil, Canada and Spain present a set of theoretical and empirical works that seek to deepen the understanding of employee-organization relations in the multiple labor contexts of their countries. Summarizing, this book offers for the first time a broad, though not exhaustive, overview of psychological contract research in a selection of Spanish, English, and Portuguese-speaking American countries in the south, center, and north of the continent, also represents a valuable contribution to research in organizational and work psychology in those contexts.