Impact of Psychological Contract Breach on Employees’ Sabotage and Whistle-Blowing Behaviors through Perceived Organizational Frustration

Abstract

The objective of this study is to examine the negative impact of psychological contract breach (PCB) on employees’ undesirable behaviors through perceived organizational obstruction with the theoretical support of affective event theory. PCB is the violation of perceived obligations of the company which may lead the employees to exhibit detrimental behaviors. The data were collected from the employees of private telecom companies including U-fone, Telenor, and Mobilink in Rawalpindi/Islamabad at the researcher’s convenience using a self-administered questionnaire with a lag of one week. PCB was tapped at Time-1, perceived organizational frustration at Time-2 and dependent variables at Time-3. Initial screening tests on data were applied in SPSS and Amos whereas the hypothesized relationships were tested in process MACRO. The data provided support to all the direct and indirect paths of the proposed model. Limitations and future avenues are given at the end.