Effect of Psychological contract breach on emotional exhaustion of employees considering the mediating role of Affective organizational commitment and Affective commitment to supervisor

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of Psychological contract breach on emotional exhaustion of employees considering the mediating role of affective commitment to the organization and supervisor. This is an applied and descriptive study and has been performed by survey method. The statistical population of this study was 111 employees of government departments in Shiraz who were selected randomly. For data collection, a questionnaire of 42 items with 5 spectrum options was used. In order to analyze the data, partial least squares method was used. To assess the validity of convergent validity, software was used and for the purpose of fitting reliability, Cronbach's alpha was used. The results indicate that the instrument of measurement has a suitable content (convergent content) and its coefficient for all research structures was more than 0.7. The findings indicate that Psychological contract breach have a positive and significant effect on emotional exhaustion of employees. There is also a negative and significant effect between the Psychological contract breach and the affective commitment to the supervisor and Affective organizational commitment. Also, affective commitment to the supervisor and Affective organizational commitment has a negative and significant effect on the emotional exhaustion of employees. While, affective commitment to the supervisor and Affective organizational commitment does not play the role of mediation between Psychological contract breach and emotional exhaustion of employees.