Chapters authored
Counterproductive Workplace Behaviors (CWBs): Antecedents and Outcomes
In the recent decades, counterproductive workplace behaviors (CWBs), a willful and intentional acts by members of organizations that harm organizations and their stakeholders have attracted the interest of organizational researchers due to its prevalence and huge negative impacts on organizations and their members. Globally, businesses have suffered immerse financial losses as well as damage to human capital development leading to feelings of dissatisfaction and distress culminating in intention to quit the organization as a result of CWBs. The present study therefore focused on exploring a number of theoretical and empirical organizational and individual antecedents of CWBs. As there are still lack of adequate understanding of the behavior especially as it concerns the predictors, further studies are necessary to gain more insight about the behavior that will enable stakeholders understand the motivational roots of the behavior which will aid in designing appropriate remedy on how to curb and mitigate the behaviors.
Part of the book: Organizational Behavior