The proposed study would investigate the relationship between the two types of workplace deviance, organizational and interpersonal, and the individual facets of job satisfaction. These two variables can interact and produce harmful effects for various aspects of an organization such as productivity and cohesiveness. Researching these variables can help organizations solve the many problems they may have with satisfaction and deviance. It is hypothesized that co-worker satisfaction will negatively correlate with interpersonal deviance and that contingent reward satisfaction will be negatively correlated with organizational deviance.
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Seventy-four participants responded to a survey that included a measure of job satisfaction and workplace deviance. Participants self reported satisfaction and deviance but ratings of their deviance from their supervisors was also collected. The scale of Bennett and Robinson (2000) was used but no distinction was made between interpersonal and organizational deviance. A significant negative correlation was found between job satisfaction and both supervisor and self report ratings of workplace …show more content…
The job satisfaction survey consists of 36 items designed to measure job satisfaction. Groups of four questions in the survey measure different subsets of job satisfaction. They are pay, promotion, supervision, benefits, contingent rewards, operating procedures, co-workers, nature of work, and communication. The questions on the survey are scored on a 1-6 scale, with a six representing the highest level of satisfaction and a one the lowest. An example of item on the survey is “I feel like I am being paid a fair amount for the work I do. This item relates to pay satisfaction (Spector, 1985). These three satisfaction variables are the object of the research. Bennett and Robinson’s (2000) scale of interpersonal and organizational deviance consists of twenty-four items that fall into the two categories, eight interpersonal and sixteen organizational. An example of an interpersonal item would be embarrassing someone at work and an organizational would be taking property from work without permission. The survey consists of all twenty-four items and subjects will rate on a 1(never) to 7(daily) Likert scale the extent to which they have performed the deviant actions in the past year (Bennett and Robinson,
Job satisfaction and workplace deviance are two widely studied variables in the field of Industrial/ …show more content…
Seventy-four participants responded to a survey that included a measure of job satisfaction and workplace deviance. Participants self reported satisfaction and deviance but ratings of their deviance from their supervisors was also collected. The scale of Bennett and Robinson (2000) was used but no distinction was made between interpersonal and organizational deviance. A significant negative correlation was found between job satisfaction and both supervisor and self report ratings of workplace …show more content…
The job satisfaction survey consists of 36 items designed to measure job satisfaction. Groups of four questions in the survey measure different subsets of job satisfaction. They are pay, promotion, supervision, benefits, contingent rewards, operating procedures, co-workers, nature of work, and communication. The questions on the survey are scored on a 1-6 scale, with a six representing the highest level of satisfaction and a one the lowest. An example of item on the survey is “I feel like I am being paid a fair amount for the work I do. This item relates to pay satisfaction (Spector, 1985). These three satisfaction variables are the object of the research. Bennett and Robinson’s (2000) scale of interpersonal and organizational deviance consists of twenty-four items that fall into the two categories, eight interpersonal and sixteen organizational. An example of an interpersonal item would be embarrassing someone at work and an organizational would be taking property from work without permission. The survey consists of all twenty-four items and subjects will rate on a 1(never) to 7(daily) Likert scale the extent to which they have performed the deviant actions in the past year (Bennett and Robinson,