Everything about Counterproductive work behavior
Employee behavior that goes against the legitimate interests of an organization
Counterproductive work behavior (CWB) is employee's behavior that goes against the legitimate interests of an organization. This behavior can harm the organization, other people within it, and other people and organizations outside it, including employers, other employees, suppliers, clients, patients and citizens. It has been proposed that a person-by-environment interaction (the relationship between a person's psychological and physical capacities and the demands placed on those capacities by the person's social and physical environment.) can be utilized to explain a variety of counterproductive behaviors. For instance, an employee who is high on trait anger is more likely to respond to a stressful incident at work with CWB. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Counterproductive work behaviorA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Person–Job Misfit: Perceived Overqualification and Counterproductive Work BehaviorInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Essentials of educational psychologyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Investigating the Dimensionality of Counterproductive Work BehaviorCited 442 times
- Go sideways: Machiavellianism in the workplaceA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Abusive supervisionA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Investigating the Dimensionality of Counterproductive Work Behavior
Antecedents of Counterproductive Behavior at Work: A General Perspective.
Illegitimate Tasks and Counterproductive Work Behavior
Job satisfaction, counterproductive behavior, and drug use at work.
Citizenship and Counterproductive Work Behavior: A Moral Licensing View
Work engagement, emotional exhaustion, and counterproductive work behavior
The Structure of Counterproductive Work Behavior
Counterproductive work behavior as protest
🆕 Influential since 2022
Person–Job Misfit: Perceived Overqualification and Counterproductive Work Behavior
Exploitative leadership and counterproductive work behavior: a discrete emotions approach
Leader’s Machiavellianism and employees’ counterproductive work behavior: testing a moderated mediation model
Job demands-resources on digital gig platforms and counterproductive work behavior
Intrinsic religiosity and counterproductive work behavior: The mediating role of Islamic work ethic
📚 Books worth reading
Essentials of educational psychologyJeanne Ellis Ormrod · 2006- 📕Counterproductive Work BehaviorsAaron Cohen · 2018
Organizational behaviorSteven Lattimore McShane, Mary Ann Young Von Glinow · 2001
Occupational crimeGerald Mars · 2001- 📕Gender and the dysfunctional workplaceSuzy Fox, Terri R. Lituchy · 2012
Counterproductive work behaviorSuzy Fox, Paul E. Spector · 2004- 📕The roles of realistic conflict and relative deprivation in explaining counterproductive work behaviorJanelle R. Enns · 2006
The Oxford handbook of personnel assessment and selectionNeal Schmitt · 2012
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