Abstract
This study examines the influence of personal factors, emotional intelligence and organizational citizenship behaviors on deviant behaviors. The data are taken from 263 undergraduate business students from a public university located on the northern region of Peninsular Malaysia. The findings of this study indicated that sportsmanship and emotional intelligence significantly and negatively associated with deviant behaviors. Our results also indicate that male students and those with lower academic achievement had significantly higher level of deviant behaviors. In the last section, we discuss these results and identify limitations and future research agenda.
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Shaiful Annuar Khalid (Corresponding author) Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), 02600, Arau, Perlis, Malaysia
Tel: 60-4-9861-001 E-mail: Rozihana@perlis.uitm.edu.my Abstract This study examines the influence of personal factors, emotional intelligence and organizational citizenship behaviors on deviant behaviors
The main objective of the present study was to examine the relationship between various facet of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and emotional intelligence (EI) on students’ deviance
Summary
Shaiful Annuar Khalid (Corresponding author) Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), 02600, Arau, Perlis, Malaysia. Business circles, untruthful incidents and behaviors among employees at managerial and technical levels are noticed over the world in recent years (Celik, 2009). Increasing moral problems in the business world have driven many educational institutions to look for possible factors that influence moral attitudes. The aim of this study is to evaluate some potential antecedents of deviant behavior among university students. This article is organized as follows: Following this introduction is a literature review on deviant behavior. This will be followed by an explanation of the study’s research method and sample selection. The results are presented along with conclusions and possible implications for academic institutions
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