Deviant and Criminal Behavior in the Workplace
Publication Year: 2013
Published by: NYU Press
Preface
Several years ago, Allen K. Hess contacted me and asked if I would be interested in editing a book on deviant workplace behavior. Allen, up until his untimely death in 2010, was the Psychology & Crime Series editor for NYU Press. How important a topic is deviant workplace behavior? All one need do is turn on the evening news or read a local newspaper to be reminded...
1. Conceptual Foundations: Insights from Criminology and the Sociology of Work
In a review of literature on crime and the workplace in 1999, we noted that “Neither crime at the workplace nor crime generated by workplace experiences has received much attention in criminology” (Jensen & Hodson, 1999). Assessments since that time have yielded similar conclusions. Based on a citation analysis, David Shichor (2009, 175) reports an...
2. Emotions and Deviance
In this chapter, we discuss the nexus of emotion and workplace deviance. Consistent with Robinson and Bennett (1995), we define workplace deviance as a form of behavior that violates organizational norms and that consequently negatively impacts the well-being of the organization and its members. In fact...
3. Born to Be Deviant? An Examination of the Relationship between Workplace Deviance and Employee Personality
Researchers and managers alike have sought for decades to reduce the occurrence of detrimental employee behaviors like theft, unexcused absences or tardiness, sabotage, violence, property destruction, physical assault, on-the-job alcohol or drug use, social undermining, and rudeness. Identifying the antecedents of such behaviors is important because they can impact...
4. The Role of Occupational Stress in Workplace Deviance
Occupational stress is a serious issue for employees and organizations alike. At the employee level, occupational stress is associated with a range of physical and psychological health problems, including chronic illness and disease. Furthermore, there is increasing consensus that occupational stress is related to both short-term and...
5. Accounting in Organizational Environments: Contextualizing Rules and Fraud
Merely say the name WorldCom or Enron and most individuals will respond with a grimace. These once respected companies are known today as mere commonplace names that symbolize fraud and deception. While less known than WorldCom and Enron, numerous other cases of widely reported corporate fraud and misconduct exist, involving...
6. Human Resource Management and Deviant/Criminal Behavior in Organizations
Human resource management (HRM) emerged as a profession, formally recognized in work organizations, about a century ago. It is generally agreed that since emerging as an organizational function, HRM has evolved through a variety of approaches, starting as an administrative discipline and eventually becoming a potential strategic partner to top management...
Part IV: The Role of (In)Justice and Social Power in Deviant Workplace Behavior
7. Hazards of Justice: Egocentric Bias, Moral Judgments, and Revenge-Seeking
Research has long documented a relationship between workplace fairness and organizational deviance. When individuals are treated unjustly, they tend to retaliate by harming others (for reviews, see Folger, 1993; Folger & Baron, 1996; Tripp & Bies, 2009). This can have pernicious effects on organizations. In one study...
8. The Role of Social Power in Sexual Harassment and Job Discrimination
Instances of sexual harassment are all too common in the workplace (see Chamberlain et al., 2008). Jokes with sexual content, whistling at a woman in a skirt, and soliciting favors of a sexual nature are just a handful of instances where one employee is inappropriately exercising power over another employee. Because of the wide range of behaviors that can fall into the...
9. When Employees Turn Violent: The Potential Role of Workplace Culture in Triggering Deviant Behavior
Unfortunately, tragedies such as these are not uncommon in the least. According to recent statistics, an employee is killed at a U.S. workplace by a current or former co-worker an average of once each week. In addition, another twenty-five are seriously injured by violent assaults. Overall, some two million U.S. workers are victims of some form of workplace violence...
10. Workplace Violence: Prevention and Aftermath
Violence has become all too common in our workplaces. These tragic outbursts of mayhem have disparate causes and involve innumerable types of disputes. However, all events of workplace violence share two distressing features: they cause tremendous pain and anguish to the workplace involved and they contribute to a broader environment...
E-ISBN-13: 9780814722626
E-ISBN-10: 0814722601
Print-ISBN-13: 9780814722602
Print-ISBN-10: 0814722601
Page Count: 288
Publication Year: 2013
OCLC Number: 827236443
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