Psychological Contract Breach and Workplace Deviance Behavior: the Moderating Effects of Perceived Peer Support and Punishment

To understand the relationship between employees and organizations becomes the core issue that enterprising and researches urge to discuss. Therefore, this study intends to explain the relationship from the view of psychological contracts and to find psychological contract breach influences workplace deviance behavior.

Furthermore, from the consideration of three aspects- sociocultural contexts, organizational contexts and interpersonal contexts, whether likelihood of punishment and perceived support of coworker could moderate the relationship among psychological contract breach and workplace deviance behavior. In this study, the author uses convenient sampling. 389 subjects are the employees from the variety of firms. The research found out: (1) Psychological contract breach indeed leads to the increment of workplace deviance behavior.