Purpose This study investigates the relationship between passive leadership and deviant behaviors targeted to supervisors (supervisor-directed deviance) coworkers (interpersonal deviance), moderating effect power distance collectivism have on these relationships. Design/methodology/approach uses a survey questionnaire. Respondents were 310 non-managerial employees working in various industries ...

The infrequent occurrence of a transient feature (deviance; e.g., frequency modulation, FM) in one of the regular occurring sinusoidal tones (standards) elicits the deviance related mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the event-related brain potential. Based on a memory-based comparison, MMN reflects the mismatch between the representations of incoming and standard sounds. The present study ...

We examine the relationship between the incidence of workplace deviance (on-the-job crime) and the state of the economy. A worker’s probability of future employment depends on whether she has been deviant as well as on the availability of jobs. Using a two period model we show that the net impact on deviant behavior to changes in unemployment can go either way depending upon the nature of the e...

Social Thought & Research, Vol 28 Address all correspondence to: Mark Vermillion, Department of Kinesiology and Sport Studies, Sport Administration, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67260-0016 Tel: (316) 978-5444. Email: [email protected] The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between sport participation and school defined deviance in eighth grade adolescents...

In this study, the authors examined the relationships among parenting factors (closeness, communication, support, and monitoring), peer deviance, and adolescent risky sexual behavior in a sample of rural African American youth (N=689). Descriptive analyses revealed that risky sexual activity in this sample was common, with a little over half of the sample endorsing participation in one or more ...

Public sector reforms are commonplace in developing countries. Much of the literature about these reforms reflects on their failures. This paper asks about the successes and investigates which of two competing theories best explain why some reforms exhibit such positive deviance. These theories are called ‘solutionand leader-driven change’ and ‘problem-driven iterative adaptation’. They are use...