The role of perceived organizational support and emotional intelligence towards workplace deviance among teachers

Abstract

Workplace deviant behaviour has been a challenging issue for the organization today. It is widely recognized as it leads to major loss in organization’s productivity. Thus, this research aims to investigate the relationship between perceived organizational support and emotional intelligence towards workplace deviant behaviour among secondary school teachers. The study was carried out at nine secondary schools in Pasir Gudang district by using cross-sectional survey design. A total of 359 respondents were participated in this study. The data were analyzed using correlation and simple regression. The findings indicated that both perceived organizational support (r=-0.38, p<0.01) and emotional intelligence (r=-0.23, p<0.01) have a weak negative but significant relationship with the workplace deviant behaviour. In addition, the regression result indicated both perceived organizational support and emotional intelligence have significant impact on workplace deviance. The findings may help the school organization to understand the impact of organizational support and emotional intelligence of individual teacher to develop suitable course in handling workplace deviance.