Occupational Stress and Workplace Deviant Behavior

The purpose of the research was to identify the relationship between demographic factors and occupational stress at Permintex Holdings Sdn Bhd, and also to determine the relationship between demographic factors and workplace deviant behavior. Furthermore, this study also tried to determine the relat...

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Main Author:	Nor Hayati, Zainuddin
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Published:	2006
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description	The purpose of the research was to identify the relationship between demographic factors and occupational stress at Permintex Holdings Sdn Bhd, and also to determine the relationship between demographic factors and workplace deviant behavior. Furthermore, this study also tried to determine the relationship between occupational stress and workplace deviant behavior. A total of 58 managers, executives and assistants executives participated in this study completed the questionnaire. Data were collected by using simple random sampling. A questionnaire comprises three measures which are demographic background of participants, occupational stress, and deviant behavior at the workplace. This study has documented that managerial staff which are assistant executives, executives, and managers sometimes facing with occupational stress at workplace. This reflected that, they were able to cope with the workload, responsibility pressure, role of conflicts, and conflict that they are facing between job and non-related job in fulfilling the vision of the company. On top of that, the findings also showed that there are no significant differences between demographic factors such as marital status, gender, age and occupational stress that facing by Permintex employees. Demographic factors were not found to have any relations to workplace deviant behavior. The findings also revealed that the relationship between occupational stress and workplace deviant behavior was moderately significant correlated.
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spelling	my-uum-etd.1092017-10-30T15:36:00Z Occupational Stress and Workplace Deviant Behavior 2006-05 Nor Hayati, Zainuddin College of Business (COB) Faculty of Business Management HM Sociology. The purpose of the research was to identify the relationship between demographic factors and occupational stress at Permintex Holdings Sdn Bhd, and also to determine the relationship between demographic factors and workplace deviant behavior. Furthermore, this study also tried to determine the relationship between occupational stress and workplace deviant behavior. A total of 58 managers, executives and assistants executives participated in this study completed the questionnaire. Data were collected by using simple random sampling. A questionnaire comprises three measures which are demographic background of participants, occupational stress, and deviant behavior at the workplace. This study has documented that managerial staff which are assistant executives, executives, and managers sometimes facing with occupational stress at workplace. This reflected that, they were able to cope with the workload, responsibility pressure, role of conflicts, and conflict that they are facing between job and non-related job in fulfilling the vision of the company. On top of that, the findings also showed that there are no significant differences between demographic factors such as marital status, gender, age and occupational stress that facing by Permintex employees. Demographic factors were not found to have any relations to workplace deviant behavior. The findings also revealed that the relationship between occupational stress and workplace deviant behavior was moderately significant correlated. 2006-05 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/109/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/109/1/nor_hayati.pdf application/pdf eng validuser masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia Albrecht, K. 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