What’s So Deviant about Production Deviance
The Ethics of ‘Withholding Effort’ in the Workplace
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20317534 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ned Dobos (0000-0003-0425-7711, UNSW Canberra, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 519-540 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Theory and Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-802X • E-ISSN: 2154-123X |
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5840/soctheorpract20178112 |
| OpenAlex | W2744487716 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
In the world of human resource management employees that deliberately "withhold effort" on the job are called "production deviants".The implication is that workers are under a duty to perform as best they can, but why should we accept this?Three answers are presented and interrogated.The first says that employees who withhold effort are guilty of "time-banditry" or theft from their employers.The second says that withholding effort harms one's colleagues or co-workers.The third suggests that employees owe their employers a debt of gratitude, whose discharge requires that they be as productive as they reasonably can be
Criminology · Deviance (statistics) · Sociology · Statistics · Mathematics · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |