Deviant Workplace Behaviours and Its Relationship with Big Five Personality Traits: A Small-scale Study in Hong Kong

Current study examined the frequency of deviant workplace behaviours among Hong Kong employees and their association of personality traits. Analysis of 194 responses revealed that Hong Kong employees are not particularly deviant at work, and that significant negative correlations exist in Agreeableness and Conscientiousness traits with deviant workplace behaviours. Perceived unfairness in certain organizational practices may also increase the frequency of deviance. This study further suggested that employees in the post-pandemic era might engage in leisure form of workplace deviance more frequently due to the ambiguous work and personal life boundary under the recent prevalence of remote or hybrid working.