Investigating the Role of Organizational Pessimism in Employees' Deviant Behaviors: With the Mediating Role of Social Wear

The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of organizational pessimism in employees' deviant behaviors through social wear. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey method. The statistical population includes 320 employees of Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch. Using Krejcie and Morgan table, 175 people were selected as a statistical sample by random sampling method. Research data were collected through Dean et al. (1998) Organizational Pessimism Questionnaire, Duffy et al. (2002) Social Abrasion Questionnaire and Robinson & Bennett (1995) Staff Deviation Behavior Questionnaire. To determine the validity of the questionnaires, face and content validity were used and to assess the reliability, they were confirmed by Cronbach's alpha method, which were 0.920, 0.854, and 0.933, respectively. SPSS-22 and Lisrel 8.80 statistical software were used to analyze the obtained data. Analysis of the collected data showed that organizational pessimism has a positive and significant effect on employees' deviant behaviors. The effect of mediating the role of social wear on the relationship between organizational pessimism and deviant behaviors of employees was also confirmed. In general, the results of the present study are consistent with the researches and it can be said that in the society and the sample under study, one of the factors affecting the deviant behaviors of employees is attention to organizational pessimism and social wear.