Why might some employees sabotage their companies?

Authors

Knowledge@SMU

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

7-2009

Abstract

The abuse of organisational resources, lying to colleagues, mishandling of confidential data, blackmail, etc - deviant behaviour in the workplace is not just a nuisance, but also a crippling and costly affair, easily reaching billions annually. As it is, business leaders are already saddled with enough worries over the market environment. Tackling deviant behaviour is an extra human resource challenge that most would prefer to go without. Lance Ferris, an organisational behaviour and human resources professor at Singapore Management University, looks at what causes such behaviour: self-esteem, and how managers can address this issue.

Disciplines

Business | Human Resources Management

Copyright Owner and Holder

Copyright © Singapore Management University 2012

Licece/Creative Commons Licence

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Article ID

1224

Subject(s)

Human Resources

Citation

Knowledge@SMU. Why might some employees sabotage their companies?. (2009).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/139