o:2586 EMPIRICAL RESEARCH OF THE PERCEPTION OF A PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT IN RESPECT OF DEGREE OF JOB PERMANENCY en Modern forms of work relations that have arisen as a consequence of economic, organisational, demographic, cultural and technological changes in the society and the increasing reliance on temporary work and significantly affect the content of the psychological contract built by employees. The research examines the influence of different employment patterns on employees' psychological contract in educational institutions in the Leskovac and Vlasotince area. Using the descriptive method, the comparison method, the sampling method, the χ2 test, the correlation coefficient and the Mann-Whitney U test, the dependence was examined, as well as the degree of agreement between the observed phenomena. The survey contains questions that are adjustments to the questionnaire that Denise M. Rousseau used in her research. The paper defines four hypotheses, presents the research results, and the reached conclusions. Observing the relationship between job permanence and the content of a psychological contract can help increase work performance and job satisfaction. The work can be helpful to experts in the field of human resource management but also to all interested parties who want to get acquainted with this topic. 12th International scientific conference Science and Higher Education in Function of Sustainable Development – SED 2021, Western Serbia Academy of Applied Studies, Užice (Serbia) 1552100 978-86-82078-11-1 2024-07-11T13:36:02.550Z 44 yes 46 Ana Milijić Innovation Center, University of Niš 0000-0002-7844-5398 2021 46 Kristina Spasić University of Niš, Faculty of Economics application/pdf 291484 https://phaidrani.ni.ac.rs/o:2586 no yes 18 70 1556237 18A15