A Longititual Study of Group Level and Individual Level Organizational Misbehavior in Schools Based on Social Contagion Theory

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Assistant Professor of Management Department, Ilam University

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This paper examines the transmission or contagion of organizational misbehavior (OMB) among school’s teachers. Research method was descriptive – correlation and all of Secondary school teachers were made the population of study which 220 of them were selected via stratified sampling method. To collect the data, standardizes scales was used and data analyzed through hierarchical linear modeling (HLM).Results shows that organizationally directed misbehavior is partially spread through social information in that the relationship between the work group’s ODM and the focal individual’s ODM was partially mediated by all three forms of social information. The work group’s ODM creates social information (direct observation, indirect knowledge and prevalence of these behaviors) that is perceived by other members of the work group. That social information is positively related to the ODM of a focal group member. Interpersonally directed misbehavior is spread through direct observation and prevalence of IDM as the IDM of the work group and the focal individual was fully mediated by these two types of social information but not by the indirect knowledge of IDM. Taken together, these findings indicate that the work group’s misbehavior creates social information (direct observation, indirect knowledge and prevalence of these behaviors) that is perceived by other members of the work group. That social information is positively related to the misbehavior of a focal group member.

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