Keywords
Counterproductive work behaviors, cwb, organizational justice, procedural justice, distributive justice, interpersonal justice, informational justice, sabotage, withdrawal, abuse, theft, production deviance, cwb i, cwb o, state affect, positive affect, negative affect, affect, meta analysis, mediation
Abstract
Counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) are an expensive phenomenon for organizations, costing billions of dollars collectively each year. Recent research has focused on justice perceptions as predictors of CWBs, but little research has been conducted on the specific types of counterproductive work behaviors (i.e., sabotage, withdrawal, production deviance, abuse, and theft) that result from specific organizational justice perceptions (i.e., distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational) and the mediating effect of state affect. The current paper meta-analyzed the relationships between justice, CWB, and state affect and found that justice was negatively related to dimensions of CWB and state positive/negative affect were negatively/positively related to CWB dimensions, respectively. However, mediation of the relationship between justice and CWB by state affect was inconsistent across justice types and CWB dimensions. These findings suggests that, while managers should maintain an awareness of justice and state affect as individual predictors of CWBs, the current study does not necessarily support the claim that state affect explains the relationship between justice and counterproductive work behavior dimensions.
Notes
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Graduation Date
2014
Semester
Spring
Advisor
Joseph, Dana
Degree
Master of Science (M.S.)
College
College of Sciences
Department
Psychology
Degree Program
Industrial Organizational Psychology
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0005151
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0005151
Language
English
Release Date
May 2014
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Subjects
Dissertations, Academic -- Sciences; Sciences -- Dissertations, Academic
STARS Citation
Cochran, Megan, "Counterproductive Work Behaviors, Justice, and Affect: A Meta-Analysis" (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4517.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/4517