... to relationship with different employers. Employees gain broader skills in the same time retaining the specialised skills, thus not confine his transferable skills. In the rise of 20th century, we witnessed a big wave of structural changes in the employment relationship subsequent of organisations experienced waves of merger and acquisition, organization downsizing and delayering, technology boom, globalisation phenomenal, corporate scandals, economic recession and international political uncertainties (Jane Cranwell-Ward, 1995; Mabey, et. al., 1998). These caused people start to question their underlying value with the organization they worked with (such as the lesson from Enron scandal), and thus seeking ways to gain greater control over their destinies. McBain, R. (2002) said that the very fact that increasing pace of change and need for an organization to respond to today's rapidly evolving business environment may well mean 'breaches of psychological contract' are likely to increase. This implies managers can no longer plan their ...

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