Does emotional intelligence promote behavior that strictly benefits the greater good, or can it also advance interpersonal deviance? In the investigation reported here, we tested the possibility that a core facet of emotional intelligence--emotion-regulation knowledge--can promote both prosocial and interpersonally deviant behavior. Drawing from research on how the effective regulation of emoti...

Fairness in the workplace attenuates a host of negative individual and organizational outcomes. However, research on the psychology of aging challenges the assumption that fairness operates similarly across different age groups. The current research explored how older workers, vis-à-vis younger workers, react to perceptions of fairness. Integrating socioemotional selectivity theory and the mult...

This study examines why and when employees might respond to job insecurity by engaging in workplace deviance and developing intentions to leave-2 activities that are costly for organizations. Drawing on social exchange theory and the theory of moral disengagement, we propose that job insecurity increases workplace deviance and intentions to leave by encouraging employees to morally disengage. W...

This paper presents a conceptual model to explain employee security behaviors as a function of manager’s transgressions in the workplace. To date, most information systems security (ISS) studies neglect the effects poor leadership can have on the security of organizational ISS. This paper seeks to broaden the study of leadership in information systems security by examining negative effects of l...

The researcher’s purpose upon composing this research is to examine the relationship between Self-Reactiveness and Workplace Deviance among college interns. This done because researcher feels with existence of an unsupportive inadequate work environment, members who undergo internship program intentionally consciously choose not show their optimal skills abilities as a reaction self-regulation....

Abstract In the current meta-analysis, we examine relation between age and workplace deviance, find a small but significant negative correlation (ρ¯ = −.124, k 198). More importantly, test several trait-based mechanisms to help explain this relation. Specifically, based on neo-socioanalytical model of personality change, hypothesized that those Big Five traits change with age, HEXACO honesty–hu...

Based on social learning theory and regulatory focus theory, we propose that receiving positive negative gossip from coworkers increases individuals’ vicarious learning, which subsequently improves their adaptive behaviours in the workplace, namely, increasing task performance decreasing interpersonal deviance. Furthermore, receivers’ foci determine extent to receivers engage change behaviours....

The objective of this research is to examine the role workplace spirituality in reducing undesirable behaviours. Organizational misbehaviour, as defined by Vardi and Wiener 1996 1, any voluntary act employees that violates fundamental organizational or society norms. Employee deviant behavior employee deliberate activity breaches standard norms organization endangers well-being." Deviant misbeh...