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The Dark Side of Organizational Behavior
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The Dark Side of Organizational Behavior

by H. Cenk Sözen, H. Nejat Basım
July 2022
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
204 pages
7h 45m
English
Routledge
Content preview from The Dark Side of Organizational Behavior

8 Deviant behaviors at work

Demet Varoğlu and Aysun Doğan

DOI: 10.4324/9781003292401-9

Defining deviance: theories behind the concept

Arriving at the concept of deviance through norms

Defining deviance needs to start from the concept of norm. People need other people for the continuity of their lives, and this leads them to form and share a particular social environment. If there are no norms that determine the appropriate behaviors in any environment, then bringing up and discussing deviance will be meaningless and predicting the limits and direction of behavior will not be possible. Forming and continuing social relationships smoothly can only be possible with a set of rules, and these rules that people need are called norms ...

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