Ricky W. Griffin, Anne O'Leary-Kelly, Robert D. Pritchard
ISBN: 0-787-96223-6
Cloth
544 pages
April 2004

This new volume in the Organizational Frontiers Series provides a useful organizing framework for better understanding the dark side of organizational behavior, provides a perspective for organizing current thinking about the area, and creates an agenda for future theory development and research. It focuses on the causes, processes, and consequences of behaviors in organizations that have a negative impact on the organization, the people in them, and/or the people and/or institutions in their environments. Moreover, chapter authors in the volume explicitly address explanations of why such behaviors occur.

Chapters consider different levels of analysis, from the individual to the organization and perhaps the societal level as well, placing each particular topic or area within its most relevant theoretical context to clarify how these problems are similar and different and what problems are really clusters with common antecedents, processes, and so forth. There is also a special focus on whether there are common antecedents or causes of some of these behaviors, addressed in the concluding chapter written by the editors.

In addition, each chapter addresses issues such as the frequency and magnitude of its relevant behaviors, and identifies implications for practice and policy.