[Investigation of the ethical climate impact, job characteristics and human resources management practices on deviant behavior in the workplace: a study of employees at the General Company for Fertilizers] : [a study of employees at the General Company for Fertilizers]

الملخص EN

Existing literature reveals a gap in the empirical knowledge on workplace deviant behavior in organizations.

This study specifically aims to firstly, investigate the relationship between ethical climate and workplace deviant behavior; secondly, investigate the relationship between job characteristics and workplace deviant behavior; and thirdly, investigate the relationship between human resource management practices and workplace deviant behavior.

A survey was conducted involving distribution of questionnaires to 107 employees from all job categories, namely managerial, executive and nonexecutive, in general company for chemical fertilizer industry, located in the state of Basra.

Quantitative data were processed using the Statistical Package for Social Science version 19.

0, which includes descriptive statistics, and Pearson correlation.

Additionally, multiple regression were used to test the study hypotheses.

The results suggest a significant and negative relationship among of the variables.

The results also supported only two hypotheses.