Abstract:

The high occurrence of employee deviance in the organization indicates that the existing management style, which focuses on controlling employee behaviors that has already done while neglects decreasing the perception of deviant behavior, is inefficient. On the basis of analyzing the connotation and structure of deviant behavior, and combined with the situation of Chinese organization, the paper designed items to measure the perception of deviance and deviant intention; through a questionnaire survey, employee deviance is divided into eight dimensions: rent-seeking, cheating, laziness, embezzlement, denigration, disclosure, destruction and abuse; studying the differences of employee deviant intention in demographic variables and exploring the relationship between the perception of employee deviance and deviant intention. The results show there is significant difference among employee′s deviant intention, gender, marriage, education, work experience and the type of the organization,besides, there is a significant positive correlation between the perception of employee deviance and deviant intention.

Key words:

deviant behavior, perception of deviant behavior, deviant tendency, demographic variables