The effect of organizational hypocrisy on deviant behaviors in the workplace through organizational identity and organizational social responsibility

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Abbas Ghaedamini Harouni ¹ , reza Ebrahimzadeh Dastjerdi ² , Mehrdad Sadeghi ³

1 - Ph.D. Student, Cultural Management of Facuty Management. South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran ,Iran
2 - Assistant Professor of Facuty Management Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor of Facuty Management Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2023-09-03 Accepted : 2024-04-21 Published : 2024-08-06

Keywords: organizational hypocrisy, deviant behaviors in the workplace, organizational identity, organizational social responsibility,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of organizational hypocrisy on deviant behaviors in the workplace through organizational identity and organizational social responsibility. The present study was applied in terms of its purpose and descriptive in terms of correlational data collection. The statistical population of the present study consisted of all the employees of Isfahan branch of Islamic Azad University (Khorasgan) in the number of 660 people, and 244 people were selected as a sample through the proportional stratified sampling method through the Cochran sampling formula. The research tools are organizational social responsibility questionnaire by Farouk et al. (2014), questionnaire of deviant behaviors in the workplace by Bennett and Robinson (2000) and standard questionnaire of organizational hypocrisy by Kulichoglu et al. (2019) and organizational identity questionnaire by Ant et al. 2006) that the validity of the questionnaires was examined based on content, form and structure validity and after the necessary terms, the validity was confirmed. And on the other hand, the reliability Questionnaires were estimated by Cronbach's alpha method as 0.90, 0.88, 0.90 and 0.89 respectively. Data analysis was done at two descriptive and inferential levels including structural equation modeling. The results of the research showed that the direct effect of organizational hypocrisy on deviant behavior in the workplace was significant and positive, and the coefficient of this effect was 0.77, Also, the results showed that organizational identity and organizational social responsibility mediated the relationship between organizational hypocrisy and deviant behaviors in the workplace.