Title:	THE EFFECT OF CONTRACT CONDITIONS AND FOREIGNNESS UPON SOFTWARE ENGINEERS’ COMMITMENT AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT
Author(s):	Mohammed Bindrees, R. Pooley
ISBN:	978-989-8704-04-7
Editors:	Philip Powell, Miguel Baptista Nunes and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2014
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Contract, psychological contract, commitment, foreignness
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	159
Last Page:	167
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	The fierce competition within industrial countries throughout manufacturing and service provision has increased significantly in recent years. This has, in turn, led organisations to use multiple kinds of contractual paradigms in order to achieve their goals and objectives more easily. The aim of such models is to facilitate corporate progress in the desired way in terms of cost, time and quality. This study has aimed to determine the influence of such diverse contractual models and conditions on Software Engineers’ commitments and psychological contract. In particular, it will consider their commitment towards the organisation of which they are part, and how this is affected by the conditions of their contacts. Software Engineers commitment power and psychological contract elements have been measured by a web-based questionnaire, which was derived from TCM Employee Commitment Survey (John P Meyer & Allen, 2004) and PCI (Psychological Contract Inventory) (Denise M Rousseau, 2008) . This study was descriptive and used the statistical tools (SPSS) in order to test its hypotheses and thus achieve the study’s objectives. The study sample used was drawn from closed groups such as on Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as some well-known companies in Saudi Arabia and within the United Kingdom. This was facilitated by circulating emails containing the study survey. The results have revealed that there is a considerable influence of the age of Software engineers on their commitment and contractual conditions; furthermore, psychological contract has been the most influential factor throughout all our sample’s ages. Surprisingly, foreignness hasn’t had any significant effects on SE’s commitment or contract conditions; however, it has a significant impact on SE psychological contracts.
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