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
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2. Differential Association Theory of Deviance Cultural Transmission Theory or Differential Association Theory of Deviance is called the social learning theories of deviance. Meaning: This is the idea that deviance is a learned behavior. An individual learns deviance by interacting with the deviant groups. It is learned by social interaction (e.g. A good person become a smoker by interacting with a
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organization. One of the important workplace issues that receive less attention among organizational scholars is workplace deviant behavior. The concept of workplace deviance in recent years has generated high interest among organizational researchers and practitioners because of its pervasiveness in organizations. Some forms of workplace deviance includes absenteeism‚ abusing sick day privileges‚ abusing drugs and alcohol‚ filing fake accident claims‚ sabotaging‚ breaking organizations’ rules‚ withholding
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Deviance affirms cultural values and norms‚ it also clarifies moral boundaries‚ promotes social unity and provides jobs to control deviance. Deviant behaviour is contextual in nature in that cultural differences make it very problematic to define deviance. One may ask this question on deviance‚ are humans genetically predisposed at birth with the characteristics that make them act deviantly‚ or do the people around them influence them to act this way. This writer seeks to expound on the fact that
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Professor: DR. ALICIA T. BALDECANO TOPIC: UNIT 4: DEVIANCE‚ SOCIAL PROBLEM AND SOCIAL CONTROL 1. What is Deviance? Deviant Behavior? 2. Competing Explanations of Deviance: Sociology‚ Psychology and Sociology 3. Types of Deviation: Theories and Causes of Deviance 4. Function of Deviance 5. Social Foundation of Deviance a. Deviance and Power b. Deviance and Capitalism c. Deviance and Gender 6. Social Control 7. Contemporary
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Aggression and Violent Behavior 18 (2013) 605–610 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Aggression and Violent Behavior Ethical‚ legal and social issues surrounding research on genetic contributions to anti-social behavior Colleen M. Berryessa‚ Nicole A. Martinez-Martin‚ Megan A. Allyse ⁎ Stanford University‚ Center for Biomedical Ethics‚ United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Received 26 March 2013 Received in revised form 27 June 2013
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avoid crime and to live a pure life? No I do not believe we societies could exist without deviance‚ without a challenge of ideas‚ a thief taking from the poor our values and norms would never exist. As Emile Durkheim’s structural-functional theory has laid out the four functions of deviance and why they exist.
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Labeling Theory The theory of labeling is defined as a view of deviance. According to being labeled a deviant person‚ is one that engages in deviant behaviors. Labeling theory was quite popular in the 1960s and early 1970s‚ but then fell into decline‚ partly as a result of the mixed results of empirical research (Criminal Law‚ 2010). The theory of labeling was originated from Howard Becker ’s work in the 1960s; it explains why people ’s behavior clashes with social norms (Boundless‚ 2009)
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out about any organizational deviance that is occurring. There are three main types of whistle blowers‚ which are‚ unbending resisters‚ implicated protesters‚ and reluctant collaborators. Implicated Protesters speak out within organization than comply with the deviance. They choose to go along with their superiors‚ because they may have believed that resisting would be worse for them than complying. Eventually‚ fear of legal liability forces them to expose the deviance. In the case‚ “Why Should My
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deviance and social control Deviance and Social Control BSBM 1-6 Jimhil D. Burgos Joyce Ann Abito Deviance – any act that violates the social norms with respect to the following factors: time‚ place and public consensus. PERSPECTIVES AND THEORIES OF DEVIANCE 1.) Functionalist Perspective * Emile Durkheim’s Functionalist Theory – Deviance benefits society by enhancing conformity‚ strengthening social solidarity‚ safely reseasing discontent and inducing social change.
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