Exploring employer–employee relationship: A psychological contract breach-exit voice and loyalty effect mediated by the dark triad
South African Journal of Business Management
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Exploring employer–employee relationship: A psychological contract breach-exit voice and loyalty effect mediated by the dark triad | |
| Creator | Mmamel, Uche Abugu, James Ilechukwu, Leo Ogbo, Anastasia Onodugo, Vincent Ofoegbu, Grace Okwo, Henry U. | |
| Description | Purpose: To understand the underlying employer–employee relationships when there are weak labour laws and high unemployment, we tested a mediation of the ‘Dirty Dozen’ – 12 – items measuring the dark triad (Machiavellianism, psychopathy and narcissism) on the Psychological Contract Breach (PCB) – Exit, Voice and Loyalty (EVL) effect.Design/methodology/approach: Using 391 respondents comprising the staff of a large financial institution in Nigeria, we formulated the hypotheses to establish direct, indirect and total effects of the variables studied. Constructs diagnostics were performed using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) for construct validity, composite reliability for internal consistency and Hayes’ mediated regression to test the hypotheses.Findings/results: All direct effects were statistically significant. Narcissism is shown as the non-statistically supported mediator amongst the dark triad, whilst the study showed that the total effect of the multiple mediators worsens loyalty behaviour more than they predict exit behaviour.Practical Implications: This implies that employers should do better to maintain a healthy work climate in developing climes, as the dominant response to contract breach would not be exit, but rather disloyalty, which would be more disruptive to the organisation than either exit or voice.Originality/value: Post Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) there could be a threat to sustainable work systems. Both employers and employees would have to develop methods to deal with perceived breach from employers and idiosyncratic work behaviour of employees. The contributions of this study would aid sustainable work-related practices, especially within unregulated work environments as present in Africa and other developing nations across the world. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2021-05-31 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajbm.v52i1.2079 | |
| Source | South African Journal of Business Management; Vol 52, No 1 (2021); 13 pages 2078-5976 2078-5585 | |
| Language | eng | |
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