Organisational Misbehaviour

Faridahwati Mohd. Shamsudin (Universiti Utara Malaysia, faridah@uum.edu.my)

Abstract


This article reviews literature on organisational misbehaviour and suggests that the literature can be divided into two groups. It distinguishes a characteristic North American way of thinking about the topic, and a characteristic British/European perspective. In this article these two approaches to misbehaviour are referred to as the management/organisational behaviour and the industrial sociological perspectives. The first perspective is mainly championed by North American scholars, while the second perspective by British/European academics. Not only do these two perspectives differ from one another with respect to their understanding of misbehaviour, they also differ in the way organisational misbehaviour needs to be studied.

ABSTRAK

Makalah ini menyoroti karya mengenai tindakan bukan gelagat organisasi dan mencadangkan bahawa karya tentang topik ini dapat dikelaskan pada dua kumpulan, iaitu yang menggambarkan cara pemikiran sarjana Amerika Utara dan sarjana British/Eropah. Dalam makalah ini dua pendekatan bagi bukan gelagat organisasi ini dikenali sebagai perspektif gelagat pengurusan/ organisasi dan sosiologi industri. Perspektif pertama diperjuangkan oleh sarjana Amerika Utara manakala perspektif kedua oleh sarjana British/ Eropah. Bukan sahaja kedua-dua perspektif ini memberikan pandangan yang berbeza tentang kefahaman mengenai bukan gelagat organisasi, bahkan kedua-dua perspektif ini juga berbeza amalan menyelidiki perlakuan bukan gelagat organisasi.


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