Abstract
Today’s organizations are more flexible, creative, innovative and decentralized than past organizations. Constructive deviant workplace behaviors have a vital importance for organizations in terms of their positive effects. Although numerous researchers in the literature have tried to determine and clarify antecedents and consequences of constructive deviant behaviors, studies on both psychological ownership and constructive deviance are limited. In this respect, after a literature review on the concept of constructive workplace deviance, this paper provides a theoretical framework on some rarely studied predictors (i.e. psychological ownership, participative decision making, person-organization fit, idealism, justice perception), where psychological ownership is supposed to play a mediator role. Managerial and further research implications are provided.
Highlights
Workplace deviance is one of the most important research topics affecting well-being of organization and its members, thereby having considerable impact on its outcomes
Constructive deviant workplace literature shows that violating significant organizational norms, to well-being of an organization, provides an innovative atmosphere (Howell & Higgins, 1990; Robbins & Galperin, 2010; Vadera et al, 2013)
We propose that an employee, who feels that there is a good fit between his characteristics and those of the organization he serves, may develop feeling of possession, which is psychologically, and engages in constructive deviant behaviors
Summary
Workplace deviance is one of the most important research topics affecting well-being of organization and its members, thereby having considerable impact on its outcomes. Constructive deviant workplace literature shows that violating significant organizational norms, to well-being of an organization, provides an innovative atmosphere (Howell & Higgins, 1990; Robbins & Galperin, 2010; Vadera et al, 2013). In this respect, the positive side of these behaviors was evaluated in this study. Relations between these two positive concepts, both at the expense of the organizational milieu and norms, psychological ownership -a positive attitude, and constructive workplace deviance -a set of positive behaviors, are rarely studied until now.
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