Can Childhood Factors Predict Workplace Deviance?

Workplace Deviance and Recession

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...

Status and the evaluation of workplace deviance.

Bias in the evaluation of workplace misbehavior is hotly debated in courts and corporations, but it has received little empirical attention. Classic sociological literature suggests that deviance by lower-status actors will be evaluated more harshly than deviance by higher-status actors. However, more recent psychological literature suggests that discrimination in the evaluation of misbehavior ...

Development of a measure of workplace deviance.

The purpose of this research was to develop broad, theoretically derived measure(s) of deviant behavior in the workplace. Two scales were developed: a 12-item scale of organizational deviance (deviant behaviors directly harmful to the organization) and a 7-item scale of interpersonal deviance (deviant behaviors directly harmful to other individuals within the organization). These scales were fo...

Interactive effects of personality and situation on workplace deviance

Can Spiritual Well-Being Predict Successful Aging?

Objectives: Successful aging is a positive, inner feeling and satisfaction with the past and present lives. Thus, the study was conducted to determine the predicting factors of the successful aging in a sample of Iranian elderly. Materials and methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytic study was conducted on 291 elderly people in Qazvin in 2018 selected using two-stage cluster samp...