Counterproductive work behavior is a major problem for organizations all over the world. It leads to negative outcomes and costs a lot for the companies. This study tries to explore the factors leading to counterproductive work behavior. From the existing literature review, different forms of organizational justice have been chosen to examine as the potential antecedents of counterproductive work behavior. While power distance was used as the moderator in the relationship between organizational justices and counterproductive work behavior. The statistical findings showed that procedural, distributive and interactional justices are significant factors that might hinder counterproductive work behavior. Findings also revealed that power distance had moderating effects in the relations between organizational justices and counterproductive work behavior. The current study will contribute to the understanding of the justice-CWB relationship by exploring the role of an unexplored individual difference variable as a moderator. The output of this study provided significant insights regarding the causes of CWBs in organizations. If organizations know about the reasons of CWBs, they can work proactively to avoid such types of occurrences.
Counterproductive work behavior, organizational justice and power distance
