THE EFFECT OF PSYCHOLOG？CAL CONTRACT BREACH ON INNOVATIVE WORK BEHAVIOR: THE ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL SILENCE: AN APPLICATION FOR DEFENSE INDUSTRY

Innovative behavior refers to behaviors that involve the production and implementation of new ideas at workplace. Psychological contract is an important determinant of employee behavior. A perception of the psychological contract breach may lead to negative attitudes and behaviors. Employees may behave silently because of the psychological and security concerns in case of violation of the psychological contract breach. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of psychological contract breach on the innovative work behavior and the mediating role of organizational silence in this relationship. Survey data were collected from a sample of 213 employees from two firms in defense industry. Confirmatory factor analysis is conducted for testing scale validity; correlation and regression analyses are applied for testing the relationship and mediating effect respectively. The result showed that psychological contract breach has negative effect on the innovative work behavior and organizational silence has the mediating role in the relationship between psychological contract breach and innovative work behavior