Coping Styles and CWB: Towards a Better Understanding of the Personality-CWB Relationship

Why do employees low in emotional stability, agreeableness, and conscientiousness engage in such counterproductive work behaviors as leaving work early and purposefully doing work incorrectly? The current study leverages coping theory to understand the process through which these personality traits lead to the enactment of CWB, thereby contributing to the perspective that these behaviors have instrumental, emotion-focused coping motives. In...