Personality Psychology
Personality and Motivational Traits As Correlates of Workplace
Deviance among Public and Private Sector Employees
Kiran Sakkar Sudha and Waheeda Khan*
Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 110 025, India
KEYWORDS Big Five Personality Traits. Organizational Deviance. Interpersonal Deviance. NEO-FFI. Behavioral Activation.
Behavioral Inhibition
ABSTRACT Deviant behaviors have far reaching effect on the individual and at the organizational level. In spite of clear ethical guidelines, employees indulge in deviant activities. Dispositional variables have been linked with deviant behavior and are also influenced by individual motivation; hence personality and motivational traits were considered. The purpose of the research was to study the Big Five personality traits and motivational traits to explore its relation with workplace deviance among the employees of public and private sector organizations (N = 60). The results showed that public sector employees’ significantly differed from the employees of private sector on workplace deviance and openness trait of big five personality traits. Significant correlations among some of the dimensions of personality, motivational traits and workplace deviance were obtained. Neuroticism evolved as a major correlate of organizational deviance in both public and private sectors. Motivational traits (BIS, BAS) were correlated significantly to different dimensions of workplace deviance in private sector and not in public sector. It has implications for organizations on how to manage workplace deviance.
INTRODUCTION
There has been drastic increase in number of corporate scandals such as 3G telecom scam,
Commonwealth scam, etc. and deviancies caused by troubled interpersonal issues leading to death and killings, such as in the case of
Maruti Suzuki Ltd., Graziano Transmissioni
India etc. There is an immense need to explore the underlying causes of such organizational and interpersonal deviant
Deviance among Public and Private Sector Employees
Kiran Sakkar Sudha and Waheeda Khan*
Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 110 025, India
KEYWORDS Big Five Personality Traits. Organizational Deviance. Interpersonal Deviance. NEO-FFI. Behavioral Activation.
Behavioral Inhibition
ABSTRACT Deviant behaviors have far reaching effect on the individual and at the organizational level. In spite of clear ethical guidelines, employees indulge in deviant activities. Dispositional variables have been linked with deviant behavior and are also influenced by individual motivation; hence personality and motivational traits were considered. The purpose of the research was to study the Big Five personality traits and motivational traits to explore its relation with workplace deviance among the employees of public and private sector organizations (N = 60). The results showed that public sector employees’ significantly differed from the employees of private sector on workplace deviance and openness trait of big five personality traits. Significant correlations among some of the dimensions of personality, motivational traits and workplace deviance were obtained. Neuroticism evolved as a major correlate of organizational deviance in both public and private sectors. Motivational traits (BIS, BAS) were correlated significantly to different dimensions of workplace deviance in private sector and not in public sector. It has implications for organizations on how to manage workplace deviance.
INTRODUCTION
There has been drastic increase in number of corporate scandals such as 3G telecom scam,
Commonwealth scam, etc. and deviancies caused by troubled interpersonal issues leading to death and killings, such as in the case of
Maruti Suzuki Ltd., Graziano Transmissioni
India etc. There is an immense need to explore the underlying causes of such organizational and interpersonal deviant