Employee attitudes and the psychological contract

• Annual surveys
  Our long-running series of employee attitude and engagement surveys provides an independent picture of the experience of work in Britain. The report of the latest survey was published in December as Working Life: Employee attitudes and engagement 2006. This can be ordered from the CIPD Bookstore
  
• Buy the report
  
  We produced two short free papers based on the report. The survey report How engaged are British employees? sets out the key findings, and comments on the demographic and sector differences and on the management implications 
  
• View the report
  
  In Reflections on Employee Engagement leading commentators in the field provide additional perspectives on the research findings.
  
• View the report
  
  In the preceding years, we published a series of annual surveys looking at different aspects of the psychological contract. These are no longer in print, but are available for loan to CIPD members from our Library.
  
• Employee well-being and the psychological contract
Employer perceptions of the psychological contract
• Pressure at work and the psychological contract 
• Public- and private-sector perspectives on the psychological contract
• The psychological contract in the public sector
• Organisational change and the psychological contract
•  Fairness at work and the psychological contract
•  Employee motivation and the psychological contract
   
• Visit the CIPD Library
  
  

  
  

• In October 2005 we produced a short paper Managing Change: the role of the psychological contract. This draws on the evidence from the literature to address key questions around the relationship between change and the psychological contract.
• View the paper
  
  
• A practical tool to assess employee attitudes has been developed. Managing the psychological contract: taking the temperature will help you measure the state of the employee relationship.
• View the tool
  
  

People Management articles

• 23 November 2006 p38-39 'Hear me now' by Mike Emmott Reports on CIPD research highlighting the importance of staff engagement
  
  
• Please note that access to articles over one month old in the research centre is a member only benefit.

Contact details

• Mike Emmott, Adviser - Employee Relations