Blame It on Individual or Organization Environment: What Predicts Workplace Deviance More?

Ivana Načinović Braje, Ana Aleksić and Sanda Rašić Jelavić
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Ivana Načinović Braje: Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Ana Aleksić: Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Sanda Rašić Jelavić: Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Social Sciences, 2020, vol. 9, issue 6, 1-12

Abstract: Deviant workplace behavior is one of the widely present employee behaviors that create significant organizational cost, create an unhealthy working environment, and lead to various social and psychological job- and non-job-related consequences. Although various personality, situational, and organizational factors have been analyzed as instigators of such behavior, literature calls for a more comprehensive approach that analyzes interaction and mutual effects of different sources of deviant behavior. This paper explores organizational culture and individual personality as the antecedents of deviant workplace behavior. A multilevel perspective is applied in empirical research that was done on a sample of 251 employees from 11 organizations in Croatia. Results of our research and hierarchical linear modeling imply that individual-related factors, namely, age and gender, as well as personality traits, are greater predictors of both individual and organizational deviance as opposed to organizational culture.

Keywords: deviant workplace behavior; organizational culture; personality traits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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