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Anticipatory Psychological Contracts of Undergraduates Management Students: Implications for Early Career Entitlement Expectations

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Interest in the concept of the psychological contract has vastly grown since the 1990s, even though it was first introduced by Argyris in 1960. Levinson et al. (Men, Management and Mental Health, 1962) then elaborated on the psychological contract by explaining it as an exchange relationship between employer and employee, in which each party has expectations about mutual obligations (Freese and Schalk, South African J Psychology 38(2):269–286, 2008). With this chapter an overview is given of the psychological contract, as well as pre-entry expectations and entitlements of scholars and students that can influence this contract. Furthermore, the perceived future employment expectations and obligations of undergraduate management students were investigated, based on entitlement and anticipatory psychological contract themes identified through a qualitative study on a similar study population (Gresse and Linde, Management Revue, in press). The influence of psychological entitlement on this anticipatory psychological contract was determined, after which the results of the empirical study were discussed. This chapter ends with implications for career counseling and guidance in the contemporary workplace.

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  1. North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

    Bennie Linde

  2. North-West University, Mahikeng, South Africa

    Werner Gresse

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Linde, B., Gresse, W. (2014). Anticipatory Psychological Contracts of Undergraduates Management Students: Implications for Early Career Entitlement Expectations. In: Coetzee, M. (eds) Psycho-social Career Meta-capacities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00645-1_15

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