Title

Two Images Of Workplace Sabotage

Abstract

Lazlo’s tale of workplace deviance captures the dominant image of sabotage, the caricature of the "‘mad saboteur’ who, overwhelmed by the trials and tribulations of everyday organizational life, explodes in a selfindulgent moment of destruction” (Jermier, 1988, p. 128). This view permeates popular accounts of sabotage in the workplace, and it is common to academic treatments as well. The image of the mad saboteur presents a particular characterization of the causes, emotions, goals, and forms of sabotage, categories that we emphasize in this chapter. Its prototypic features are employee mistreatment as a fundamental cause, anger or outrage as the emotional reaction, and a motive that is primarily expressive, whether it is to vent anger or to exact revenge. The type of sabotage that results from these conditions is a single, extreme act of deviance that demands attention.

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Publication Title

Insidious Workplace Behavior

Number of Pages

77-99

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203849439-12

Socpus ID

85123158989 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85123158989

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