The employment relationship: examining psychological and contextual perspectives

Part I. The nature of the employment relationship from social exchange, justice, industrial relations, legal, and economic literatures

1. The employment relationship through the lens of social exchange

2. Justice and employment: Moral retribution as a contra-subjugation tendency

3. Industrial relations approaches to the employment relationship

4. Legal theory: Contemporary contract law perspectives and insights for employment relationship theory

5. The economic dimension of the employment relationship

6. Commonalities and conflicts between different perspectives of the employment relationship: Towards a unified perspective

Part II. Examining constructs to capture the exchange nature of the employment relationship

7. Employer-oriented strategic approaches to the employee-organization relationship

8. The employment relationship from two sides: Incongruence in employees' and employers' perceptions of obligations

9. Job creep: A reactance theory perspective on organizational citizenship behavior as overfulfillment of obligations

10. Perceived organizational support

11. The role of leader-member exchange in the dynamic relationship between employer and employee: Implications for employee socialization, leaders, and organizations

Part III. Developing an integrative perspective of the employment exchange; creating a whoe that is more than the sum of individual parts; looking toward the future; developing a research agenda

12. Taking stock of psychological contract research: Assessing progress, addressing troublesome issues, and setting research priorities

13. Changes in the employment relationship across time

14. Understanding the employment relationship: Implications for measurement and research design

15. Employment relationships in context: Implications for policy and practice

16. Directions for future research.