Mazni & Roziah (2011), as quoted in Chirasha and Mahapa (2012), argue that the annual cost of workplace production and property deviance on America’s economy amount to around;
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Apart from impacting negatively on a country’s economy, workplace deviance lead to serious negative repercussions on organisational total output and on the moral and motivation of both the employees exerting the deviant behaviour and their co-workers. Therefore workplace deviance is a phenomenon which shall not be underestimated (Chirasha & Mahapa, 2012).
Consequences on the employees and co-workers
When their needs and expectations are not met, employees become dissatisfied with their jobs and tend to disengage and under perform. According to Chirasha et.al (2012), generally when employees perceive that they are being mistreated they engage in a deviant behaviour whereby they aim to repay a negative treatment with a negative treatment. They continue by citing Mitchel and Ambrose (2002) who refers to this “eye for eye” treatment as negative reciprocity orientation. The antecedent …show more content…
Lim (2002), as cited by Ozler (2012), distinguish cyber loafing as a destructive form of employee production deviant behavior. He posits that when an employee perceives organizational injustice they try to restore balance through cyber loafing. Lim and Chen (2012), argues that surfing the web enables employs to zone out from mundane work. Then again on an individual level Cyber loafing provides a sense of relief and increases the employees' wellbeing (Schings, n.d). Nonetheless Cyber loafing as a production deviant behavior may range from minor such as; checking personal email, facebook and watching the news, to major such as; online gambling and surfing adult oriented websites, thus leading the individual towards an addiction (Rajah & Lim,
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Apart from impacting negatively on a country’s economy, workplace deviance lead to serious negative repercussions on organisational total output and on the moral and motivation of both the employees exerting the deviant behaviour and their co-workers. Therefore workplace deviance is a phenomenon which shall not be underestimated (Chirasha & Mahapa, 2012).
Consequences on the employees and co-workers
When their needs and expectations are not met, employees become dissatisfied with their jobs and tend to disengage and under perform. According to Chirasha et.al (2012), generally when employees perceive that they are being mistreated they engage in a deviant behaviour whereby they aim to repay a negative treatment with a negative treatment. They continue by citing Mitchel and Ambrose (2002) who refers to this “eye for eye” treatment as negative reciprocity orientation. The antecedent …show more content…
Lim (2002), as cited by Ozler (2012), distinguish cyber loafing as a destructive form of employee production deviant behavior. He posits that when an employee perceives organizational injustice they try to restore balance through cyber loafing. Lim and Chen (2012), argues that surfing the web enables employs to zone out from mundane work. Then again on an individual level Cyber loafing provides a sense of relief and increases the employees' wellbeing (Schings, n.d). Nonetheless Cyber loafing as a production deviant behavior may range from minor such as; checking personal email, facebook and watching the news, to major such as; online gambling and surfing adult oriented websites, thus leading the individual towards an addiction (Rajah & Lim,