School of Management，Huazhong University of Science and Technology，Wuhan 430074，China；College of Business Administration，Shandong Institute of Business and Technology，Yantai 264005，China 在知网中查找 在百度中查找 在本站中查找
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．