It is widely established that the Big Five personality traits of conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability are antecedents to workplace deviance (Berry, Ones, & Sackett, 2007). However, these meta-analytic findings are based on self-reported personality traits. A recent meta-analysis by Oh, Wang, and Mount (2011) identified the value of acquaintance-reported personality in the p...

Although the need to belong, or desire for interpersonal attachments, is a basic human motivation, understanding of how and when it influences workplace ostracism notably limited. Based on belongingness theory, this study examines negative relationship between belong exposure by focusing mediating role organizational deviance moderating in-role performance. Data from 108 supervisor–subordinate ...

The authors report results from 2 studies assessing the extent to which narcissism is related to self- and other ratings of leadership, workplace deviance, and task and contextual performance. Study 1 results revealed that narcissism was related to enhanced self-ratings of leadership, even when controlling for the Big Five traits. Study 2 results also revealed that narcissism was related to enh...

Drawing on social exchange theory (SET), this study aims to investigate communicative deviance among Indonesian employees because of supervisor and customer mistreatment. We question whether anger mediates the relationship between mistreatment deviant silence while self-control moderates promotive voice? In regard, a survey 1652 frontline service working in 60 cities reveals perceptions abusive...

Robots are transforming organizations, with pundits forecasting that robots will increasingly perform managerial tasks. One such key task is the evaluation and delivery of feedback regarding an employee's performance, including negative feedback. However, within this context delivering feedback, we suggest anthropomorphism—a factor most practitioners researchers consider as a panacea for overco...

BACKGROUND Despite decades of efforts to improve quality of health care, poor performance persists in many aspects of care. Less than 1% of the enormous national investment in medical research is focused on improving health care delivery. Furthermore, when effective innovations in clinical care are discovered, uptake of these innovations is often delayed and incomplete. In this paper, we build ...

youth deviance has always been a major concern and an irritant issue and the focal attention among various societies and it has also been the focus of attention by a large number of authorities. this sociological study deals with the cultural tendency of the youth to deviance by a sociological procedure. using a clustering method, in this survey, the data were obtained from a sample including 3...

My project of giving a general physicalistic reduction of action contrasts with Donald Davidson's view that only individual actions can be explained in physicalistic terms. The main reason for his view is that he thinks the problem of internal causal deviance is insoluble. In the first chapter, I reconstruct the theory of action Davidson develops in Essays and Events and extend the theory to so...

This paper empirically evaluates Broidy and Agnew’s propositions, in which they apply general strain theory to explain gender differences in crime and deviance, by analyzing data from a national survey of adult African Americans. First, African American women were more likely to report strains related to physical health, interpersonal relations, gender roles in the family, and less likely to me...