A STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT BREACH AND ORGANIZATIONAL CYNICISM PERCEIVED BY COLLEGE TEACHERS
Abstract
Objective of this study is to reveal the level of perceived psychological contract breach and perceived organizational cynicism of college teachers and whether or not a correlation exists between psychological contract breach and organizational cynicism. It was actualized with 100 college teachers selected by random sampling from Arts and Science colleges in kallakurichi district of Tamil Nadu in the academic years 2021-2022. In the study, "Psychological Contract Breach" and "Organizational Cynicism Scale" have been utilized in order to determine perceived psychological contract breach and perceived organizational cynicism, respectively, as data collection tool. In analyzing data thus collected, SPSS packaged software have been used, and arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Pearson correlation analysis have been made based on the data. According to data analysis results, it has been observed that overall perceived Psychological Contract Breach has a positive impact on perceived organizational cynicism of college teachers.
Keyword : College Teacher, psychological contract breach, organizational cynicism
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