Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: In the world of human resource management employees that deliberately "withhold effort" on the job are called "production deviants".The implication is that workers are under a duty to perform as best they can, but why should we accept this?Three answers are presented and interrogated.The first says that employees who withhold effort are guilty of "time-banditry" or theft from their employers.The second says that withholding effort harms one's colleagues or co-workers.The third suggests that employees owe their employers a debt of gratitude, whose discharge requires that they be as productive as they reasonably can be. What's Deviant about Production Deviance? The Ethics of Withholding EffortNed Dobos, UNSW Canberra labelled "deviant".1 Their crime, specifically, is "production deviance".2 Its perpetrators come in many stripes-there are "weasels", "mercenaries", "sandbaggers", and "parasites" 3 -but common to all of them is that they "offer less effort than they know they can" 4 and therefore 1 See Nathan Bennett and Stephanie E.
Source: Social Theory and Practice
Author: Ned Dobos
Institutions: University of Canberra, UNSW Canberra
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2744487716