Staff Psychological Contract Innovates Human Resource Management

Xiaoyan LIU, Xin WEI

School of Management and Economics, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.

DOI: 10.4236/ib.2009.11005                

Abstract

This paper mainly studies on the relationships between the contents of staff psychological contract, job satisfaction level and occupation satisfaction level by surveying, combining research methods of literature, academic and empirical research. The research results have important reference value on human resource management innovation. New suggestions were also put forward, which are relative with recruitment, measure of psychological contract, culture construction and targeted incentives to staff of different attributes.

Keywords

psychological contract, job satisfaction level, human resource management

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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