A Comparative Study of Deviant Workplace Behaviour of Teaching Staff of Public And Private Universities of Punjab-Pakistan

Workplace deviance is voluntary behaviour that violates significant organizational norms and in so ding, threatens the well being of the organization or its members or both. Workplace deviance can be captured with two general factors interpersonal deviance and organizational deviance. Interpersonal deviance includes those behaviours which are directly harmful to other individuals with in the organization such as sexual harassment, aggression and violence, bullying and incivility etc, while organization deviance includes those behaviours which are directly harmful to organization, Such as fraud, Cyber slacking, Sabotage and Theft etc. The purpose of this study was to compare the workplace deviance exhibited by the teaching staff working in public and private universities. For this purpose the researchers investigated workplace deviance by implementing a survey research. Two public and two private universities were selected and from these universities hundred and twenty lecturers (60 from public and 60 from private universities) were selected randomly. A standardized questionnaire was distributed among the teaching staff of the Universities. The questionnaire composed of total 19 items divided in two scales, 7-items measured interpersonal deviance and 12-items measured organizational deviance. Respondent were asked to indicate on a 7-point likert scale the extent to which they are engaged in each of the behaviour. The responses ranged from 1 (never) to 7 (daily). The data collected in terms of participant’s ranking responses was analyzed by applying descriptive and inferential statistical techniques such as means and t-test. After careful data analysis the researchers concluded that there is significant difference in work place deviance between the teaching staff of public and private universities. The ratio of workplace deviance is greater in teaching staff working in public universities as compared to the teaching staff working in private universities. In this article by the term ‘organization’, the researchers meant University and by the term ‘employees’, the researchers meant teaching staff