Counterproductive Work Behavior Among Government Employees: The Role of Basic Psychological Needs, Compensation, and Organizational Justice
- DOI
- 10.2991/iciap-18.2019.64How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- basic psychological needs, compensation, counterproductive work behavior, organizational justice, self-determination theory.
- Abstract
This study examined the mediating role of perceived organizational justice (procedural, interpersonal, and distributive justice) dimensions in explaining the association between basic psychological needs (need for autonomy, competence, and relatedness), compensation, and counterproductive work behavior (CWB). The participants in this study were 277 employees from various government institutions (local government, ministries, and boards). Data were collected through convenience sampling and tested using Hayes’s PROCESS Macro, from which support was found for the mediation model in which the association between basic psychological needs and CWB was mediated by the perceived organizational justice dimensions. Similar results were found for the association between compensation and CWB. The interesting finding from this study was that contrary to existing studies, compensation was found to have a positive direct effect with CWB-I, and if mediated by distributive justice, the coefficient was negative. These findings suggested several opportunities for organizational interventions aimed at minimizing the negative impact of CWB in government employees.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Ahimsyah Wahyu Pratama AU - Endang Parahyanti PY - 2019/08 DA - 2019/08 TI - Counterproductive Work Behavior Among Government Employees: The Role of Basic Psychological Needs, Compensation, and Organizational Justice BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intervention and Applied Psychology (ICIAP 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 770 EP - 784 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iciap-18.2019.64 DO - 10.2991/iciap-18.2019.64 ID - Pratama2019/08 ER -