Sistemas de controle estratégico e contratos psicológicos: um estudo na Fundação Parque Tecnológico Itaipu – Brasil

Abstract

An increasing number of studies have sought to analyze the relationship between managerial systems control and psychological contracts. There are few studies that evaluate this relationship through the strategic levers of control proposed by Simons (1995). Combining variables in these dimensions, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between strategic systems control and psychological contracts at Itaipu Technological Park Foundation - Brazil. Data collected from a survey of 197 respondents using Simon´s model (1995) as a construct for strategic systems control and by Rousseau (1989, 1995) for psychological contracts and investigated by correlation analyzes revealed positive associations between strategic levers of control and psychological contracts, highlighting the levers of diagnostic and interactive systems, which produced the highest correlations with psychological contracts in the research organization. The results show the relationship of strategic control levers' interdependence in the development of psychological contracts and point to gaps (discrepancies) between expected and performed in terms of the formal use of control systems, one of the managerial contributions of this study