TY - JOUR
T1 - Career jobs, survival jobs, and employee deviance
T2 - A social investment model of workplace misconduct
AU - Huiras, Jessica
AU - Uggen, Christopher
AU - McMorris, Barbara
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - We examine the relationship between career stakes, or the fit between workers' current jobs and their long-term career plans, and employee deviance. Most prior research has focused on the link between job satisfaction and deviance, but career stakes may be a more salient and theoretically relevant measure of workers' investments in their present positions, particularly in young adulthood. We hypothesize that people whose current jobs match their long-term career goals have made a social investment with their employers that inhibits deviant behavior. We analyze data from the Youth Development Study (YDS), a longitudinal community sample of individuals now in their mid-twenties. Our results show that career stakes and job satisfaction exert independent effects on worker misconduct even when prior levels of general deviance and workplace deviance are statistically controlled.
AB - We examine the relationship between career stakes, or the fit between workers' current jobs and their long-term career plans, and employee deviance. Most prior research has focused on the link between job satisfaction and deviance, but career stakes may be a more salient and theoretically relevant measure of workers' investments in their present positions, particularly in young adulthood. We hypothesize that people whose current jobs match their long-term career goals have made a social investment with their employers that inhibits deviant behavior. We analyze data from the Youth Development Study (YDS), a longitudinal community sample of individuals now in their mid-twenties. Our results show that career stakes and job satisfaction exert independent effects on worker misconduct even when prior levels of general deviance and workplace deviance are statistically controlled.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb00094.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb00094.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034147964
VL - 41
SP - 245
EP - 263
JO - Sociological Quarterly
JF - Sociological Quarterly
SN - 0038-0253
IS - 2
ER -