What Influences IT Professional Psychological Contract Violation?

As the requests for technical solutions to meet the changing demands of the struggling US economy grow, the IT professional is once again in the spotlight. While a significant stream of research has studied IT professionals within the context of the job and/or organization, to date little research has focused on the context of the IT profession. We address this gap with a study of the psychological contract that IT professionals have with their profession. We surveyed 686 IT professionals working in a variety of industries to explore the potential antecedents to psychological contract violation. In this exploratory study, we found that six variables explained 45% of the variance in psychological contract violation.