AUTHOR=Shen Yan 

TITLE=Differences in the moderating role of supervisors’ and subordinates’ cognition on distributive justice in the relationship between psychological contract and organizational identification

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1054940

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1054940

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=The predictive role of psychological contract on organizational identification and the moderating role of supervisors' and subordinates' cognition on distributive justice in it were investigated. A sample of 133 supervisors and 437 direct subordinates collected from private service-based SMEs were analyzed by structural equation modeling, and the results showed that (1) relational psychological contract had a positive predictive effect on organizational identification and transactional psychological contract had a negative predictive effect on organizational identification; (2) subordinates' cognition on distributive justice played a moderating role in the prediction of psychological contract on organizational identification, and supervisor's cognition on distributive justice on subordinate's psychological contract and organizational identification did not reach a significant level. This indicates that there was a significant difference between supervisors' and subordinates' cognition on distributive justice.