Counterproductive behavior – The daily blog of behavioral and cognitive economics

Relationship between personality and counterproductive behaviors at work

Counterproductive behavior at work is a topic of growing interest, both among behavioral economists and among organizational managers. This is due to the high costs that these behaviors have for companies and in general, for all types of organizations; in addition to negative social consequences. To this we must add the importance of the issue due to the role of human resources departments in today’s industry and its challenges. But what are counterproductive behaviors exactly? In the world of work, they are be understood as a set of acts that, although different, share the characteristics of being volitional and damaging, or having the intention of damaging, organizations and/or the organization’s interested parties, such as clients, co-workers or supervisors. ….[READ]