Employee Satisfaction and Theft: Testing Climate Perceptions as a Mediator
- 1 July 2007
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in The Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 141 (4), 389-402
- https://doi.org/10.3200/jrlp.141.4.389-402
Abstract
Employee theft of both property and time is an expensive and pervasive problem for American organizations. One antecedent of theft behaviors is employee dissatisfaction, but not all dissatisfied employees engage in withdrawal or theft behaviors. The authors tested a model of theft behavior by using an organization's climate for theft as an explanatory mechanism. They found that dissatisfaction influenced employee theft behaviors through the intermediary influence of employees' individual perceptions of the organization's climate for theft. The authors encourage organizations to pay attention to such climate elements and take action to alter employee perceptions if they reflect permissive attitudes toward theft.Keywords
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