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Everything about Workplace deviance
Deliberate desire to cause harm to an organization or workplace
Workplace deviance, in group psychology, may be described as the deliberate desire to cause harm to an organization – more specifically, a workplace. The concept has become an instrumental component in the field of organizational communication. More accurately, it can be seen as "voluntary behavior that violates institutionalized norms and in doing so threatens the well-being of the organization". Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Workplace devianceA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Rebellion Under Exploitation: How and When Exploitative Leadership Evokes Employees’ Workplace DevianceInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: SociologyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A TYPOLOGY OF DEVIANT WORKPLACE BEHAVIORS: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING STUDY.Cited 3,160 times
- Go sideways: Abusive supervisionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Counterproductive work behaviorA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A TYPOLOGY OF DEVIANT WORKPLACE BEHAVIORS: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING STUDY.
Development of a measure of workplace deviance.
Organizational citizenship behavior and workplace deviance: The role of affect and cognitions.
Abusive supervision and workplace deviance and the moderating effects of negative reciprocity beliefs.
🆕 Influential since 2022
Rebellion Under Exploitation: How and When Exploitative Leadership Evokes Employees’ Workplace Deviance
The relationship between customer mistreatment and workplace deviance: mediating and moderating effects
Resolving stress of university teacher: exploring role of workplace spirituality and constructive workplace deviance
Workplace ostracism and organizational deviance: A self-regulatory perspective
Fear of COVID‐19, workplace phobia, workplace deviance and perceived organizational support: A moderated mediation model
📚 Books worth reading
SociologyJames M. Henslin · 1993- 📕Analyzing Workplace Deviance in Modern OrganizationsNaman Sharma · 2019
- 📕Investigative Interviewing in the WorkplaceKevin Sweeney · 2022
Managing organizational devianceChristopher L. Martin · 2004- 📕Understanding Business OffendersPetter Gottschalk, Christopher Hamerton · 2024
Faces of diversityNashá London-Vargas · 2013
Deviance in the workplaceIda Harper Simpson, Simpson, Richard L. · 1999- 📕Using sociologyRoger A. Straus · 1985
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