Yao Xiang's research group published new results in the Journal of Vocational Behavior, revealing that induction stress intervention (ROPES) can reduce the psychological contract default of new employees

A psychological contract is a psychological contract between an organization and its members that is not formally stipulated in writing, and that employees and the organization form a psychological contract
through mutual obligations in the organization-employee relationship.
However, if an organization fails to meet one or more obligations, it can lead to a breach of the psychological contract among employees, which can lead to a series of negative consequences
, including poor performance.
Because new employees in the workplace always have various expectations and visions for the organization, they are more likely to encounter psychological contract violations
caused by the hope gap.
Therefore, how to reduce the sense of psychological contract breach of new employees has a strong practical guiding significance
for the career adaptation of new employees.
The latest research results of Yao Xiang's research group in the Journal of Vocational Behavior show that induction stress intervention (ROPES) can reduce the psychological contract breach of
new employees.

From the perspective of organizational socialization interpersonal interaction, the study used the experimental design of on-site intervention to divide 73 newly hired nurses into two groups, one group received 2 hours of induction stress intervention training (ROPES group, n1=36) and the other group received unrelated pre-job training for new employees (control group, n2=36), and their induction adaptation
was tracked in June and December after completing the induction training 。 The results show that the entry stress intervention reduces the psychological contract violation by improving their perceived organizational support, self-efficacy regulates the relationship between entry stress intervention and work pressure, and psychological enrichment regulates the relationship between
organizational support and perceived organizational support.
This work demonstrates that induction stress intervention training can improve employees' perceived organizational support and thus reduce psychological
contract default.
This work is one of a series of work results of Yao Xiang's research group in the field of new employee adaptation, and Dr.
Li Hairong and researcher Yao Xiang of Renmin University are the co-first authors
of this study.

Li, H.
?, Yao, X.
?, Zhao, T.
, Lai, L.
*, & Fan, J.
* (2022).
Testing the effects of a coping orientation program in reducing newcomers' psychological contract breach: A field experiment.
Journal of Vocational Behavior, 138, 103786.
doi.
org/10.
1016/j.
jvb.
2022.
103786.

2022-10-30