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Time-related work stress and counterproductive work behavior: Invigorating roles of deviant personality traits

Dirk De Clercq (Goodman School of Business, Brock University, St Catharines, Canada)
Inam Ul Haq (Lahore Business School, University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan)
Muhammad Umer Azeem (School of Business and Economics, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan)

Personnel Review

ISSN: 0048-3486

Article publication date: 2 September 2019

Issue publication date: 18 September 2019

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Abstract

Purpose

With a basis in the conservation of resources theory, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between employees’ experience of time-related work stress and their engagement in counterproductive work behavior (CWB), as well as the invigorating roles that different deviant personality traits might play in this process.

Design/methodology/approach

Two-wave survey data with a time lag of three weeks were collected from 127 employees in Pakistani organizations.

Findings

Employees’ sense that they have insufficient time to do their job tasks spurs their CWB, and this effect is particularly strong if they have strong Machiavellian, narcissistic or psychopathic tendencies.

Originality/value

This study adds to extant research by identifying employees’ time-related work stress as an understudied driver of their CWB and the three personality traits that constitute the dark triad as triggers of the translation of time-related work stress into CWB.

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Citation

De Clercq, D., Haq, I.U. and Azeem, M.U. (2019), "Time-related work stress and counterproductive work behavior: Invigorating roles of deviant personality traits", Personnel Review, Vol. 48 No. 7, pp. 1756-1781. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-07-2018-0241

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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