Understanding employees’ deviant behaviour: the role of agreeableness and stress related to work

These days the majority of organizations struggle to overcome employees’ misbehavior. Understanding why a phenomenon occurs, Employers and industrial organizational psychologists are interested to find factors contributing to such behaviors. The objectives of this study were to investigate the relat...

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Main Authors:	Hadi Farhadi, Rohany Nasir, Fatimah Omar, Nouri, Abolghasem
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2015
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spelling	ukm-102592017-03-30T07:00:17Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10259/ Understanding employees’ deviant behaviour: the role of agreeableness and stress related to work Hadi Farhadi, Rohany Nasir, Fatimah Omar, Nouri, Abolghasem These days the majority of organizations struggle to overcome employees’ misbehavior. Understanding why a phenomenon occurs, Employers and industrial organizational psychologists are interested to find factors contributing to such behaviors. The objectives of this study were to investigate the relationship between job stress and agreeableness (a type of personality traits) with employee deviant behaviors. Data were collected through 212 employee of an organization in Malaysia. The results showed that both job stress and agreeableness predict workplace deviant behavior. Results found that there is a positive relationship between job stress and workplace deviance and negative relationship between agreeableness and deviant behavior. It was also shown that agreeableness moderate the relationship between job stress and workplace deviant behavior. Implications for future research are discussed. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10259/1/102-107%20Hadi%20employees%E2%80%99%20deviant%20behavior.pdf Hadi Farhadi, and Rohany Nasir, and Fatimah Omar, and Nouri, Abolghasem (2015) Understanding employees’ deviant behaviour: the role of agreeableness and stress related to work. e-BANGI: Jurnal Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan, Sp. (2). pp. 102-107. ISSN 1823-884X http://www.ukm.my/e-bangi/index.php?option=com_jresearch&view=publicationslist&Itemid=45&lang=en
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description	These days the majority of organizations struggle to overcome employees’ misbehavior. Understanding why a phenomenon occurs, Employers and industrial organizational psychologists are interested to find factors contributing to such behaviors. The objectives of this study were to investigate the relationship between job stress and agreeableness (a type of personality traits) with employee deviant behaviors. Data were collected through 212 employee of an organization in Malaysia. The results showed that both job stress and agreeableness predict workplace deviant behavior. Results found that there is a positive relationship between job stress and workplace deviance and negative relationship between agreeableness and deviant behavior. It was also shown that agreeableness moderate the relationship between job stress and workplace deviant behavior. Implications for future research are discussed.
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author	Hadi Farhadi, Rohany Nasir, Fatimah Omar, Nouri, Abolghasem
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author_facet	Hadi Farhadi, Rohany Nasir, Fatimah Omar, Nouri, Abolghasem
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title	Understanding employees’ deviant behaviour: the role of agreeableness and stress related to work
title_short	Understanding employees’ deviant behaviour: the role of agreeableness and stress related to work
title_full	Understanding employees’ deviant behaviour: the role of agreeableness and stress related to work
title_fullStr	Understanding employees’ deviant behaviour: the role of agreeableness and stress related to work
title_full_unstemmed	Understanding employees’ deviant behaviour: the role of agreeableness and stress related to work
title_sort	understanding employees’ deviant behaviour: the role of agreeableness and stress related to work
publisher	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2015
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