ACTS AGAINST THE WORKPLACE: SOCIAL BONDING AND EMPLOYEE DEVIANCE.

Research into the phenomenon of workplace deviance has separately focused on two types of employee rule-breaking behavior, 1) acts against the property and assets of the organization and 2) various types of counter-productive behavior. In an attempt to compare the theoretical and empirical similarity of these two forms of employee deviance, this paper examines the self-reported involvement in both property and production deviance among a population of employees randomly sampled from three industry sectors and three metropolitan areas. Utilizing a weighted least squares logit regression analysis, the findings support continued conceptual separation of these two forms of employee rule-breaking as they seem to be explained by slightly different configurations of the `social bonding" model. Involvement in property deviance seems to be primarily the result of a lack of future "comitment" to the organization, while counter-productive behavior is better understood using a combination of "commitment, attachment, and involvement" variables in the model. Further, both forms of workplace deviance were significantly more likely to involve younger employees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]