Research on the dynamics of psychological contract through stochastic cusp catastrophe theory
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    The evolutionary dynamics of psychological contract is characterized by uncertainty,nonlinearity,and catastrophes,thus it is modeled by stochastic cusp catastrophe theory to analyze the dynamics of fulfillment—breach on psychological contract.A behavioral variable ( i.e.,perception of psychological contract) and independent control variables ( i. e. ,personality and organizational context) are introduced.This paper is the first attempt to fit a cusp catastrophe model to the data by cuspfit software.The conclusions are that: 1) The organizational context,as a normal factor,and personality,as a splitting factor,play important roles in the catastrophe of psychological contract simultaneously; 2) There are two different kinds of discrete changes on psychological contract: turbulent sudden jumps and structural catastrophes; 3) There exist turbulent sud_x005fden jumps because of external disturbance when the control variables are in the bifurcation set,while structural catastrophes will result from self-organization when they cross the border of the bifurcation set; 4) The existence of hysteresis can explain why a psychological contract could not be easily repaired once it breaches.

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