A Comparative Study on Deviant Workplace Behaviour in Healthcare Sector of Odisha

Deviant workplace behaviour has seen its signif icance emerging in most of the organizations. Workplace deviance was foresighted to be an unwanted, irrelevant behaviour that is shown because of the failure on organization’s part to live up to its own expectations, promises given at workplaces. The deviant workplace behaviour comes as a result of typical human behaviour. The behaviour may be positive or negative. The positive deviant behaviour may do wonder and may become the competitive advantage of the firm but negative deviant behaviour is the area of concern. It is very much difficult to bring the definition under one umbrella as working condition wise, organizational culture wise and human behaviour wise for deviant workplace behaviour. Some of the important behavioural aspects like employee theft, aggression, anti-social behaviour, sabotage, playing pranks, telling lies, behaving badly with the subordinates and vice versa etc. may become fatal if some amount of vigilance is not there to check it.