Attitudinal Correlates of Employees' Deviance

Theft, Alcohol Use, and Nonprescribed Drug Use

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ID13655779
AuthorsJohn W Jones (0000-0001-6117-3691, DePaul University, corresponding author)
Year1980
Volume47
Issue1
Pages71-77
Publication date1980-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1980.47.1.71
PMID7422782
OpenAlexW2111401295
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited2

Employees' on-the-job theft, alcohol use, and nonprescribed drug use cost businesses billions of dollars yearly due to shrinkage, lowered productivity, absenteeism, law suits related to accidents, etc. Sampling 39 employees from three different workplaces, statistically significant relationships between attitudes toward socially unacceptable deviant behavior, as measured by the Personnel Security Inventory, and employee on-the-job behavior in the areas of theft, alcohol use, and illicit drug use were found. Practical implications of these findings in relation to the pre-employment screening of job applicants and the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 are discussed

Absenteeism · Business · Deviance (statistics · Environmental health · Injury prevention · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Political science · Productivity · Workplace violence · Applied Psychology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Law · Medicine · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Social Psychology

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