East—West Differences in Employment Relations, Organizational Justice and Trust: Possible Reasons and Consequences

Thomas Rigotti, Kathleen Otto and Gisela Mohr
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Thomas Rigotti: University of Leipzig
Kathleen Otto: University of Leipzig
Gisela Mohr: University of Leipzig

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2007, vol. 28, issue 2, 212-238

Abstract: In a cross-sectional questionnaire study with 245 employees from West Germany and 357 employees from East Germany, the inferior labour market and economic situation in East Germany could be shown to be related, as expected, to the psychological contract, with a poorer delivery of the deal and lower levels of justice and trust. Affective commitment, on the other hand, was shown to be higher in the East than in the West German sample. Moderated multiple regression analyses revealed that the cognitive perception of psychological contract breaches is less related to emotional strain and distributive justice in the East German than in the West German sample. Results are discussed within the framework of economic and normative differences, and also with reference to social exchange theories.

Keywords: commitment; East Germany; justice; psychological contract; trust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X07076111

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