On The Impact Of Psychological Contract Violation To Interpersonal Trust In Entrepreneurial M&A

The occurrence of M & A changes the original organization and its environment, which will have a psychological impact on employees and become a psychological contract violation. Knowledge workers are the owners of knowledge capital. In the practice of M & A, The integration of knowledge workers has become the key issue when the enterprises integrate resources, also been Academic hot.In this study, the psychological contract violation is an independent variable, employee trust is a dependent variable and human resource practice is a moderator. A model is built through the three variables.The author has initial model test through cases study. Then, test the model and hypothesis by SEM and SPSS. Last, a final model is presented.In the empirical studies, we found that: (1) Transactional psychological contract violation impacts trust through relational psychological contract violation. (2) The negative effects of relational psychological contract violation on Benevolence and Integrity are larger than that of Ability. (3) Human Resources Strategies, whether "control" or "commitment", will have moderation effect on the relationship between relational psychological contract violation and employee trust.The theoretical contribution of this study is to enrich the research literature of psychological contract, trust, and human resources strategies, and propose a new research direction. While the practical contribution is that provides specific recommendations for M & A practices.