Student Cheating Habits: A Predictor Of 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...

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...

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 ...

Student drinking habits.

In recent years, medical students in Sheffield have carried out research projects as part of their final year course in general practice and public health. Three such projects were on student drinking habits, of which two were based on two different halls of residence and the third on a sample of medical students. All the projects involved random samples with approximately equal numbers of men ...

Interactive effects of personality and situation on workplace deviance