A Study of the Relationships among Organizational Change, Psychological Contract, and Job Involvement: An Example of Pension Reform

• Main Authors: Yi-Shan Tu, 凃懿珊
• Other Authors: Cheng- Hsien Li
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/w633d7

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 人力資源管理研究所 === 106 === In consideration of the changing demographic structure and the fiscal predicament, the government has come to realize the impact of retirement/pension system and the necessity of reforming it. Nevertheless, pension reform has a tremendous impact on civil servants’ welfare, and its uncertainty could lead to inconsistent cognition of the organizational change among the members, which would affect their job involvement. This study aimed to explore the relationship between firefighters’ cognition of organizational change (i.e., pension reform) and their job involvement, and to examine psychological contract (both breach and violation) as a mediating mechanism for this relationship. A total of 465 valid participants were sampled from local Fire Departments in the Southern area of Taiwan. The questionnaire includes five components: organizational change scale, psychological contract breach scale, psychological contract violation scale, job involvement scale, and demographic variables. Data from the survey were analyzed using SPSS 21 and Mplus 6, including descriptive statistics, t-test, Pearson’s correlation analysis, and structural equation modeling. The results indicated: 1. psychological contract breach mediated the relationship between organizational change and job involvement; 2. psychological contract violation didn’t mediate the relationship between organizational change and job involvement; 3. there was no significant relationship between organizational change and job involvement; and 4. firefighters who had worked longer tended to have a higher level of job involvement. Finally, conclusions and recommendations are referred to the further study.