Browsing Theses by Subject "deviance"
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Abusive Supervision and Organizational Deviance: A Mediated Moderation Model
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-02)In the current dissertation I investigated how abusive supervision promoted subordinate organizational deviance, by integrating and extending past work on mixed relationships (relationships characterized by both conflict ... -
Deviant Society: The Self-Reliant "Other" in Transcendental America
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-23)This dissertation utilizes theories of deviance in conjunction with literary methods of reading and analyzing to study a range of deviant or transgressive characters in American literature of the 1840s and 50s. I justify ... -
Effects of Social Status on Concerns with Status Losses and Status Gains in Impaired Driving Scenarios: Loss Aversion and Deviance in Peer Groups
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-15)At the forefront of current peer influence research in criminology is an attempt to understand how peers impact an individual’s participation in crime and deviance. Research seeks to explore whether social forces shape ... -
Losing Your Calm or Losing Control: Two Paths to Retaliatory Deviance in Response to Abusive Supervision
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Retaliation is a well-established response to abusive supervision. Leading edge research explains the occurrence of supervisor-directed retaliation through processes associated with the strength model of self-control ... -
Moving beyond assumptions: The reconceptualization and measurement of workplace gossip
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-01)Despite decades of research from other academic fields arguing that gossip is an important and potentially functional behavior, organizational research has largely assumed that gossip is malicious talk. This has resulted ... -
Pressuring Others: Examining the Motivations Behind Deviant Instigation and the Strategies That Accompany Them
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-30)Research on the motivations behind peer pressure and deviance has been close to non-existent. This dissertation presents a mixed methods study that was conducted exploring the motivations and strategies behind deviant ... -
Workplace Gossip, Paranoia, and a Deviance Dilemma: A Warning for Deviance/CWB Research
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-04)Organizational research has long conceptualized workplace gossip as a form of deviance and included gossip in many measures of deviance and counterproductive work behaviors (CWB). However, empirical evidence regarding the ... -
Workplace Injustice and Counterproductive Work Behaviour: The Moderating Role of Employee Age
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Drawing on prior research from several areas of psychology, I predicted that different forms of organizational justice would predict counterproductive work behaviour (CWB) depending on employees’ age. In particular, I ...