The Relationship between Psychological Contract and Health among Organizational Citizenship Behavior

Abstract

Psychological contract is expressed as mutual and variable psychological state as his speeches and unspoken expectations arising from perceptions and anticipations between the employee and management. Psychological contract is a concept based on mutual expectations and obligations between employers and employees of institutions. In organizational citizenship, a person makes sacrifices and self-sacrifices that are not specified in the person's duty and aims to provide the highest benefit to the institution. Organizational citizenship behaviors and psychological contracts are the ones should be investigated in professions where self-sacrificing work such as the health sector is essential. The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between psychological contract and organizational citizenship behavior in health care workers. In this study, a questionnaire was applied to 133 persons selected from 4 private hospitals in İzmir and the results were re-evaluated in the SPSS program. It was determined that the average score of psychological contract violation points in the other profession group was higher than doctors and nurses.