Employee Deviance

Inquiries into the nature of deviance in the employment setting have generally assumed (without much empirical support) that an important explanatory factor is the employee's perception regarding quality of the work experience. Testing the above hypothesis, this study examines self-report data from almost 5000 respondents in 35 midwestern corporations, concluding that both “general” and more “specific” measures of job satisfaction are significantly related (in the predicted negative direction) to reported involvement in deviant acts against the formal work organization.