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Psychological Contracts in the Age of Social Networks

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Psychological contracts are unwritten agreements that mutually shape the employment relationship between the employer and the employee. This chapter presents a basic overview of the anticipations and beliefs of today’s workforce in contemporary work settings. Since social relations have become a crucial part of the work life, the two main pillars of the social network theory—actors and interactions—are taken as the theoretical basis in explaining how individual employees interact and how such interactions may shape their beliefs and perceptions about their jobs.

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Berber, A. (2014). Psychological Contracts in the Age of Social Networks. In: Machado, C., Davim, J. (eds) Human Resource Management and Technological Challenges. Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02618-3_2

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