This study seeks to determine the impact of IT co-workers on individual deviance behavior in organizations. Using data collected from 322 IT employees and their supervisors in Chinese software companies, we also examine the impact of the Confucian work ethic on deviant behavior. The results suggest that both co-workers’ production deviance and the Confucian work ethic have impacts on individual...

The phenomenon of organizations breaking laws and norms in the pursuit strategic advantage has received substantial attention recent years. Such transgressions generally elicit intervention social control agents seeking to curb deviant behavior defend status quo. In some cases, their efforts result being suppressed; other occasions, however, organizational deviance can persist even be accepted ...

The title of this book states its subject-matter well. The contents comprise an introductory theoretical section, and sections on epidemiology, personality development and mental disorders, disordered behaviour and social deviance, the mental hospital, posthospital adjustment, out-patient treatment, community psychiatry and cross-cultural studies. Each section has an introductory comment from t...

In this study, the authors examine the relationship between abusive supervision and employee workplace deviance. The authors conceptualize abusive supervision as a type of aggression. They use work on retaliation and direct and displaced aggression as a foundation for examining employees' reactions to abusive supervision. The authors predict abusive supervision will be related to supervisor-dir...

Workplace deviance has become a growing concern for many organizations particularly in developing countries because of its negative consequences on organizational productivity. Drawing on the basis of organizational support theory, this study examined the relationship of perceived organizational support and perceived supervisor support with workplace deviance. The aim of this paper was to test ...

Two models of the relationship between socioemotional behavior and verbal abilities are compared: Social Adaptation and Social Deviance. The socioemotional integrity of 17 children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 20 unaffected children who were age-matched (AM) was examined using the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and the Teacher's Report Form (TRF) at kindergarten and first grade....

This study examined the causal factors associated with anger while driving and the possible consequences of that anger on driving behaviour. Drivers kept diaries over a period of two weeks, detailing the events occurring during each journey in that time, with notes on events such as near accidents and on feelings of anger. The study examined the diaries of 100 drivers, who reported a total of 2...

Purpose: The threat of the COVID-19 pandemic persists despite concerted global efforts to contain it. So also is its impact on social entrepreneurs. One main questions being, what extent which small businesses overcome imminent economic recession amid COVID-19? Many have already closed operations due countrywide lockdown in India and resultant cash flow constraints. government has introduced lo...

The essence of deviant behavior, the factors leading to it, its varieties and legal consequences are considered. Illegal immoral acts, various addictions, suicides all realities today. Abnormality deviance become a typical widespread phenomenon, especially dangerous is fairly delinquent as result which society gradually sinks into state anomie, companion any crises social upheavals. This determ...