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Occupational stress and deviant workplace behavior among customer services employees of a call center in Malaysia

Researchers have shown an increased interest in conducting studies in deviant workplace behavior since the past researches shown the cascading effects of workplace deviance on the organization as a whole. However, there is still question on the association and the influence of occupational stress a...

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Main Author: Wan Ummu Hanuni, Wan Din
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Published: 2015
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HF5548.7-5548.85 Industrial Psychology
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spelling my.uum.etd.49882021-03-29T09:47:31Z http://etd.uum.edu.my/4988/ Occupational stress and deviant workplace behavior among customer services employees of a call center in Malaysia Wan Ummu Hanuni, Wan Din HF5548.7-5548.85 Industrial Psychology Researchers have shown an increased interest in conducting studies in deviant workplace behavior since the past researches shown the cascading effects of workplace deviance on the organization as a whole. However, there is still question on the association and the influence of occupational stress and its relation to the occurrence of workplace deviance despite the increase in attention given to the study of deviant workplace behavior. This study tries to identify the correlation between occupational stress in a customer call center towards the deviant workplace behavior of its employees. The current research has been conducted among 400 customer services employees in a selected call center in Malaysia. The data was collected using a questionnaire survey method and the data analysis was conducted using Pearson correlation method and linear regression method to identify the association and to test the research hypotheses. The findings of this study reveal that there is no significant correlation between occupational stress and deviant workplace behavior on the whole. However, the results show that the interpersonal deviance level in the selected call center is linked with the responsibility pressure, role conflict and workload dimensions. Furthermore the occurrence of workplace deviance is significantly associated with the job vs non-job conflict among the employees. Ignoring these issues may cause a decrease in the work performance of the customer services employees, causing the organization valuable performance and profitability 2015 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en /4988/1/s813632.pdf text en /4988/7/s813632_abstract.pdf Wan Ummu Hanuni, Wan Din (2015) Occupational stress and deviant workplace behavior among customer services employees of a call center in Malaysia. Masters thesis, Universiti Utara Malaysia.
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Occupational stress and deviant workplace behavior among customer services employees of a call center in Malaysia
description Researchers have shown an increased interest in conducting studies in deviant workplace behavior since the past researches shown the cascading effects of workplace deviance on the organization as a whole. However, there is still question on the association and the influence of occupational stress and its relation to the occurrence of workplace deviance despite the increase in attention given to the study of deviant workplace behavior. This study tries to identify the correlation between occupational stress in a customer call center towards the deviant workplace behavior of its employees. The current research has been conducted among 400 customer services employees in a selected call center in Malaysia. The data was collected using a questionnaire survey method and the data analysis was conducted using Pearson correlation method and linear regression method to identify the association and to test the research hypotheses. The findings of this study reveal that there is no significant correlation between occupational stress and deviant workplace behavior on the whole. However, the results show that the interpersonal deviance level in the selected call center is linked with the responsibility pressure, role conflict and workload dimensions. Furthermore the occurrence of workplace deviance is significantly associated with the job vs non-job conflict among the employees. Ignoring these issues may cause a decrease in the work performance of the customer services employees, causing the organization valuable performance and profitability
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title_short Occupational stress and deviant workplace behavior among customer services employees of a call center in Malaysia
title_full Occupational stress and deviant workplace behavior among customer services employees of a call center in Malaysia
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