A General Model of Counterproductivity: Comparison of Research across Context
Abstract
This presentation examines the parallels between Counterproductive Student Behavior (CSB) and Counterproductive Work Behaviors (CWB). CWBs are intentional behaviors that harm the employee, employer, the organization and/or other stakeholders, whereas CSBs are intentional behaviors that harm the student, classmates, faculty and staff, the institution, and/or other stakeholders. While extant research has documented many of the dispositional and situational predictors of CWB, only some of these have been examined in the less commonly studied area of CSBs. We propose that many antecedents that serve to predict tendencies for counterproductive behaviors could be generalized across CSBs and CWBs. We argue that the context for which CWB and CSB occur are more similar than dissimilar and accordingly, scientists studying CSB have frequently pulled from CWB literature. This talk briefly reviews this overlapping literature, then proposes areas of research in CSB that investigate the generalizability of other untested relationships. For example, scientists have found that psychological contract breach, belief that a party has not fulfilled their obligations, predicts counterproductivity at work, yet students’ perceptions of psychological contract breach by their institution have not been examined. We believe that by fleshing out more parallels between CSBs and CWBs we can establish a generalizable model for the tendencies to exhibit counterproductivity despite varying contexts.
Keywords
Generalizibility, Counterproductive Behavior
A General Model of Counterproductivity: Comparison of Research across Context
CASB 103
This presentation examines the parallels between Counterproductive Student Behavior (CSB) and Counterproductive Work Behaviors (CWB). CWBs are intentional behaviors that harm the employee, employer, the organization and/or other stakeholders, whereas CSBs are intentional behaviors that harm the student, classmates, faculty and staff, the institution, and/or other stakeholders. While extant research has documented many of the dispositional and situational predictors of CWB, only some of these have been examined in the less commonly studied area of CSBs. We propose that many antecedents that serve to predict tendencies for counterproductive behaviors could be generalized across CSBs and CWBs. We argue that the context for which CWB and CSB occur are more similar than dissimilar and accordingly, scientists studying CSB have frequently pulled from CWB literature. This talk briefly reviews this overlapping literature, then proposes areas of research in CSB that investigate the generalizability of other untested relationships. For example, scientists have found that psychological contract breach, belief that a party has not fulfilled their obligations, predicts counterproductivity at work, yet students’ perceptions of psychological contract breach by their institution have not been examined. We believe that by fleshing out more parallels between CSBs and CWBs we can establish a generalizable model for the tendencies to exhibit counterproductivity despite varying contexts.