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Building Relationships Around Tasks: Psychological Contracts in Faculty-Doctoral Student Collaborations
journal contribution
posted on 1998-01-01, 00:00 authored by Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni, Denise M. RousseauPsychological contracts theory is applied to the study of faculty-doctoral student
collaborations. Through a survey of 170 doctoral students, four types of psychological contracts
are investigated. The quality of collaboration and frequency of meetings are found to differ
significantly across these contract types. In addition, quality of collaboration and meeting
frequency varied significantly across collaborations using different research methods (e.g,
laboratory work, theory building) and disciplinary paradigms (i.e., high and low consensus). A
comparison sample of 46 faculty from the same departments supported several trends observed in
the doctoral student data.