Attitudinal Correlates of Employees' Deviance: Theft, Alcohol Use, and Nonprescribed Drug Use
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 47 (1) , 71-77
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1980.47.1.71
Abstract
Employees' on-the-job theft, alcohol use, and nonprescribed drug use cost businesses billions of dollars yearly due to shrinkage, lowered productivity, absenteeism, law suits related to accidents, etc. Sampling 39 employees from three different workplaces, statistically significant relationships between attitudes toward socially unacceptable deviant behavior, as measured by the Personnel Security Inventory, and employee on-the-job behavior in the areas of theft, alcohol use, and illicit drug use were found. Practical implications of these findings in relation to the pre-employment screening of job applicants and the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 are discussed.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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