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 ...

This study aimed to investigate the impact of school climate on teachers’ workplace organizational deviant behavior. The main objectives were analyze principal behavior, behavior towards their colleagues, safety and resources was descriptive in nature. population this consisted all teachers government high higher secondary boys’ schools district Nowshera, Peshawar Mardan. Using simple random sa...

Despite growing academic and practical concerns about IT-transformed workplaces, little research empirically investigates these concerns. This paper adopts a unique approach to address these concerns by evaluating the appropriateness of traditional drivers of career salience in high IT working environments. Building on established measures of role stress, participation in decision making, job i...

Advancements in communication technologies change the way we interact with each other significantly, making distance less of an issue for keeping in touch and collaborating with others. However, they can also take away social elements such as the feeling of closeness in an interaction, making it important to examine the effects that these technologies (the virtual workplace, smart phones and ub...

In this paper we fuse HRM and KM perspectives in order to explore the detrimental impact of age discrimination or “ageism” prevalent in UK organizations on the development of social capital, considered to be so vital for improved organizational performance in knowledge-based economies. We discuss the potential impact of new age discrimination legislation in the UK in overcoming ageism, highligh...