Purpose – The purpose of this article is to perform a literature review of the existing body of empirically‐based studies relating to the causes and implications of how the ethical climate of a company ultimately affects the incidence of workplace deviance. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to define toxins such as toxic leader, toxic manager, toxic culture, and toxic organization and explore how they affect the organization's performance and its employees. Design/methodology/approach – This article is basically twofold. It is a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact on organizations of both negative deviant workplace behaviors – those that violate organizational norms, policies or internal rules – and positive deviant workplace behaviors – those that honorably violate them. The reasons why...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study and provide a large national publicly traded company with realistic solutions for succession planning. The name of the actual company where all data were collected has remained anonymous and been replaced with Millennium Dynamics, Inc. As a large...

Purpose – The focus of the paper is a large, national, publicly traded company. As a large number of its workforce consists of “baby boomers”, 50 percent of its employees will be of retirement age within the next five years. Having acknowledged the company's concerns about efficiency of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to uncover and synthesise the main factors that affects and determines the success or failure of empowerment initiatives from a macro and micro perspective. Design/methodology/approach – A thorough review of scholarly articles and empirical evidence was...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to uncover and synthesise the main factors that affects and determines the success or failure of empowerment initiatives from a macro and micro perspective. Design/methodology/approach – A thorough review of scholarly articles and empirical evidence was...