Abstract

The study investigated the relationship between psychological contract PC and organizational commitment OC in selected private universities in Nigeria The study took four dimensions of psychological contract transitional orientation relational orientation the perceived balance of obligations and stage of development of the contract with three measures of organizational commitment affective normative and continuance whereby five private universities Obong University Arthur Javis University Rhema University Gregory university and Ritman University were studied The quasi-experimental design used for the study with a population of four hundred and seventy-seven 477 with a sample size of 218 was determined using the Taro Yamane s formula A well-structured questionnaire was adopted as the tool for sampling in the field to obtain data using the simple random sampling method In testing the hypothesis the Spearman rank-order correlations coefficient rho was the statistical instrument used to test the relationship between dependent and independent variables