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This study examines the antecedents and consequences of both timing and content of idiosyncratic deals (i-deals) for attracting and retaining valuable employees.A resource exchange frame theorizes the influence pattern of personal individualism value,social skill,and perceived insider status on i-deals timing.Individualism and social skill are expected to relate to both ex ante and ex post i-deals; perceived insider status is anticipated to relate only to ex post i-deals.The frame also suggests that i-deals' content and personal development relate primarily to relational and balanced psychological contracts;the other ex post i-deals,flexibility and workload reduction relate to transactional psychological contracts.The frame was tested with data collected from 289Chinese employees in the telecommunication industry.