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...

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....

objectives: behavioral-based safety is a term used to describe the prevention of accidents, injuries and loss in the workplace. an effective behavior-based safety program relies on engaging employees to understand how unsafe behaviors lead to injuries and how to eliminate them from the workplace. this paper examines behavior-based safety program in a massive construction site. methods: for this...

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...

Online deviant behavior refers to a range of activities, some considered illegal, some considered amoral, many considered both. The Internet has transformed the accessibility of information and enabled individuals with common beliefs to find each other and reinforce behaviors considered unacceptable. Pathological individuals, once limited by time, space, and societal constraints, use virtual co...