The psychological contract and the effects of the psychological contract on the organizational commitment from employee relationship perspective: A study on four-five stars hotels

During the last decade, many organizations have been forced, by increased competition and by the globalization of business world, to seek to remain competitive by cuting costs like organizational restructuring or downsizing. As a result of this progress, organizations tried to renew the damaged employment relations with focused on employee behaviours. The psychological contract defined as the unwritten implicit contract that forms in the minds of employees and contains the obligations and expectations that they believe exists between themselves and the organization. And this concept would be an important guidance in understanding employee behaviour. On the other hand, organizational commitment generally refers to the attachment, emotionally and functionally, to one?s place of work. This thesis aimed to examine whether there is a relationship between of employees? psychological contract and organizational commitment, failed to fulfil of obligations by employer mediates lower organizational commitment.The questionnaire which is about employer?s obligations to perception of employee, fullfilment of employer?s obligations to employee and organizational commitment was applied to a total of 177 tourism employees from 30 four-five stars hotel organizations in Antalya. Results supported the view that, as failed to fulfill of the obligations could probably cause weaker organizational commitment.