Concept information
Preferred term
organizational retaliatory behavior
Definition
- Organizational retaliatory behavior refers to actions taken by disgruntled employees in response to perceived injustice at work. Organizational retaliatory behavior can take many forms, including withholding effort or citizenship behaviors, intentionally performing tasks incorrectly, purposely damaging equipment, taking supplies or materials, taking longer breaks than allowed, calling in sick, spreading rumors about people at work, refusing to help others at work, failing to report problems so they get worse, attending to personal matters while at work, purposely wasting time, sabotaging projects, and ignoring or verbally abusing people at work. [Source: Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Organizational Retaliatory Behavior]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/organizational_retaliatory_behavior
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