Determinants of Employee Deviant Behavior: Assessing the Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction

Abstract

Keeping employee deviance as the central point, the effects of injustice from organizational perspective as well as behavior of the leader is analyzed while keeping satisfaction at job as a mediating variable. Finding solution to unwanted behaviors of employees served as the bases of this research. The employees of cellular industry of Pakistan are taken as the respondents. Sample size consisted of 229 individuals and data collected was interpreted with the help of SPSS. Partial mediation remained between dependent and independent variables; however, variables are significantly correlated to each other. This study could be useful for all levels of management particularly the strategic level where policies are devised for employees. Precisely, this research focuses a stressed manager finding way to resolve employee problems related to morale and intrinsic motivation. The work limits itself to telecommunication industry of Pakistan only.