Absence, Lateness, Turnover, and Retirement: Narrow and Broad Understandings of Withdrawal and Behavioral Engagement

A person-centered approach to behaving badly at work: An examination of workplace deviance patterns.

“…As such, our findings contribute insights to the conversation regarding the relationship between deviance and withdrawal. Though meta-analytic and narrative reviews have suggested that deviance and withdrawal behavior are conceptually and operationally intertwined (Carpenter & Berry, 2017;Harrison & Newman, 2012), these constructs are often operationalized as distinct outcomes in theoretical models (Diefendorff & Mehta, 2007) and have different theoretical traditions (e.g., deviance and social exchange theory, Blau, 1964;Guay et al, 2016; withdrawal and the stressor-strain perspective, N. P. Podsakoff et al, 2007;Schaubroeck et al, 1989). Although our findings cannot conclusively determine where withdrawal fits when it comes to deviance (or vice versa), they do call for a new way of thinking about the OD-Withdrawal relationship.…”