Knowledge Workers Psychological Contract Management

The thesis is a research on psychological contract management policy of knowledge workers. Psychological contract is a kind of subjective psychological promise between employers and employees about what they should do and what they should get. The key is the internal informal rights and obligation between employers and employees. In social life, informal psychological contract and formal economical contract exert employment. Economical contract is getting salary in return for time and working production. Psychological contract gets career development and promotion in return for loyalty and creativity. It's indicated that, psychological contract and economical contract are both important in economical relationship. If corporation emphasize economical contract but ignore psychological contract, employees will feel not satisfied with their expectation, and work in negative emotion that will make them decrease their contribution even do some damage to the corporation. If the corporation emphasize psychological contract too, employees will feel content with expectation and be identified with by organization, then they will work harder and be more loyalty to organization. That make us know even though psychological contract is invisible, it exactly exerts the employment relationship.Along with the development of social civilization, the development of economy depends on knowledge much more. This is undoubtedly knowledge-based economy time, knowledge is the most important production element. It's obviously that knowledge worker who masteries professional knowledge is important. Their attitude and loyalty decide that how much value the corporation will create, and the destiny of corporations in market competition. Therefore it has been cared by domestic and abroad academicians about how to build psychological contract between employers and employees, to develop potential of human resources.There was much research on psychological contract, however psychological contract is invisible and complex. Knowledge worker is more sensitive than ordinary worker. Therefore it is still worth to study how to carry out nonobjective psychological contract management, and put forward some methods for psychological contract management on knowledge workers. The thesis aims to the characteristic of knowledge worker, and the main points influencing the psychological contract. And study with fact on how to associate corporation development and career development, put forward some advices.