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.
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