The roles of coping with organizational stress, organizational justice perception, job satisfaction and emotions in counterproductive work behaviors

Within the scope of this research; the effects of coping with organizational stress, organizational justice perception, job satisfaction and emotions of the employees on their counterproductive work behaviors are examined. On-line surveys have been used as the data collection method for this study. The link of the questionnaire prepared within the scope of the thesis was delivered to participants via e-mail and the questionnaires were filled online. The majority of the data obtained from a total of 769 employees is composed of highly educated individuals with a maximum of ten years of experience in public institutions with more than 50 employees. Besides the reliability analyses applied to the scales used, correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis were performed on the collected data. As a result of the analyses made; it has been found that there is a significant relationship between counterproductive work behaviors and positive affectivity and negative affectivity. Also, it has been found that there is partly a significant relationship between counterproductive work behaviors and coping with organizational stress and organizational justice perception. On the other hand, no significant relationship has been found between counterproductive work behaviors and job satisfaction. Finally, different types of counterproductive work behaviors were found to be explained by different sets of independent variables and with different levels of explanation.