The Effect of Negative Work Outcomes on Employee Deviant Behavior: Exploring the Relationship Between Perceived Injustice, Boredom, Moral Disengagement and Work Withdrawal in Training Units

Abstract

Deviant behaviour at workplace is very problematic for businesses. The purpose of this paper is to 
investigate the variables which cause deviant behaviour. One kind of deviant behaviour “work 
withdrawal” is analysed in this paper. Specifically, the role of two negative work outcomes like boredom 
and perceived injustice is determined to test the causes of work withdrawal. In this paper, the relationship 
between work withdrawal and perceived injustice, work withdrawal and boredom are determined. Moral 
disengagement has been used as a mediating variable. Survey Data were collected from employees of 
Moreover, the effect of moral disengagement is observed. six different companies from Bahrain. The responses were collected through questionnaire. The data were 
analysed by using PLS. The significance of the theoretical relationship was assessed using structural 
equation model (SEM). The paper concludes that boredom causes work withdrawal while perceived 
injustice has no impact on work withdrawal. Perceived injustice causes moral disengagement. Boredom 
also causes moral disengagement. But moral disengagement has no impact on work withdrawal. Apart 
from this, we have found that boredom has a small effect on disengagement and strongly affects 
withdrawal. However, disengagement has a small determining effect on withdrawal, and perceived 
injustice has a small effect on both disengagement and withdrawal. This research paper would contribute 
to Human resources ethical literature by studying the causes of deviant behaviour at the workplace.