The essay needs to answer the question: How might the psychological contract of public sector workers be more effectively managed?
It should use most of the following references, but not only those exclusively:
Conway, N. and Briner, R. (2012) Fifty Years of Psychological Contract Research: What Do We Know and What are the Main Challenges? International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Conway, N., Kiefer, T., Hartley, J. and Briner, R. (2014) Doing More with Less? Employee Reactions to Psychological Contract Breach via Target Similarity or Spillover during Public Sector Organizational Change, British Journal of Management, Vol. 25, 737–754
Constaing, S. (2006) The Effects of Psychological Contract Fulfilment and Public Service Motivation on Organization Commitment in the French Civil Services, Public Policy and Administration, 21(1)
Conway. N. T and Coyle-Shapiro, N. (2012) The reciprocal relationship between psychological contract fulfilment and employee performance and the moderating role of perceived organizational support, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 85:2, 277–299
Coyle-Shapiro, J. and Kessler, I. (2003) The Employment Relationship in the UK public sector: A psychological contract perspective, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 13(2) 213-30.
Cullinane, N. and Dundon, T. (2006) The psychological contract: A critical review, International Journal of Management Reviews 8(2)Guest, D. (2004). “The psychology of the employment relationship: An analysis based on the psychological contract”. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 53 (4): 541-555
Guest, D. and Conway, N. (2002) Communicating the Psychological Contract: An Employer Perspective, Human Resource Management Journal, 12(2), 22-38
O’Donnell, M. and Shields J. (2002) Performance Management and the Psychological Contract in the Australian Federal Public Sector, Journal of Industrial Relations, 44(3)
I attached a Powerpoint on the topic for reference