“Who can I blame and what can I do?”: making sense of psychological contract evaluations between Belgian and Chinese employees

Frontiers of Business Research in China

Table 1 Differences in attribution for psychological contract evaluations between Belgian and Chinese interviewees (N = 94)

Psychological contract evaluation	Nationality	Attribution		χ² test	p
		Organization	Supervisor
Under-fulfilled	Belgian	4	15	1.84	0.18
Under-fulfilled	Chinese	0	15	1.84	0.18
Exactly-fulfilled	Belgian	6	14	1.17	0.28
Exactly-fulfilled	Chinese	9	8	1.17	0.28
Over-fulfilled	Belgian	9	6	0.00	1
Over-fulfilled	Chinese	5	3	0.00	1
		Intentionality
		Intentional	Unintentional
Under-fulfilled	Belgian	6	14	1.09	0.30
Under-fulfilled	Chinese	8	7	1.09	0.30
Exactly-fulfilled	Belgian	13	7	1.25	0.26
Exactly-fulfilled	Chinese	7	10	1.25	0.26
Over-fulfilled	Belgian	7	8	0.00	1
Over-fulfilled	Chinese	4	4	0.00	1