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ABSTRACT
Drawing on the social exchange theory this study assesses the relationship between co-workers’ solidarity as an antecedent of incivility and deviant behavior. More specifically we hypothesize that reduced co-workers’ solidarity will increase not only incivility but also deviant behaviors of employees. An additional hypothesis predicts that incivility will enhance co-workers’ deviant behavior. Data was collected in 15 organizations of various types using an online questionnaire in 2014. We analyze the data using structural equation modeling. Our findings reveal interrelationships between all three variables. Co-workers’ solidarity reduces uncivil and deviant behaviors of employees, whereas incivility increases organizational deviance. Moreover, we found that the explained variance of property deviance by incivility was twice as high compared to production deviance.
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1 They either answered “no” to the question “Are you a permanent employee in the organization?” and/or “yes” to the question “Are you a working under a contactor?” In addition, they answered and/or answered “much below average, below average” to the following question: “The average monthly household expenses in Israel today amount to 13.800 NIS. What are your average monthly household expenses?”
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Yariv Itzkovich
YARIV ITZKOVICH is a Lecturer for Organizational Behavior and Management at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Kinneret Academic College in Israel. His research focuses on incivility and deviant forms of organizational behavior and management.
Sibylle Heilbrunn
SIBYLLE HEILBRUNN is Professor for Organizational Sociology and holds currently the position of Dean of School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Kinneret Academic College in Israel. Her research focuses on entrepreneurship and on forms of organizational behavior including perspectives of diversity and multi-culturalism.