Doctoral Student Profile

Prapimpa Jarunratanakul

Supervisors: Michael O'Driscoll, Donald Cable

Organizational justice perceptions and counterproductive work behavior
I was attracted to counterproductive work behavior (CWB). CWB is harmful actions committed by employees, which include behavior that intenntionally brings harm to their organization or its members, such as sabotage, employee withdrawal, wasting employer's supplies, theft, interpersonal aggression, spreading harmful rumors, and violations of confidentiality. In spite of the fact that CWB has been apparently accounted for a tremendous amount of revenue loss, permanent damage to a workplace environment and decreased productivity in various organizations, this top has received little attention from management scholar. Human resource staff always treats counterproductive manners as minor issues. As workplace justice perceptions are regarded as important cognitions leading to many social and organizational behaviours, justice perspective will be used to approach to the study of CWB. More interestingly, cultural differences in preferences or values for justice rules, criteria, and practices probably result in different antecedents of justice perception, and different magnitudes of influence of similar antecedents on certain forms of perceived justive.

The purpose of my PhD research is to (a) investigate whether similar antecdents of justice perceptions will have different degrees of influence on justice perception across cultures; (b) indentify the antecedents and consequences of justice perceptions; and (c) explore the moderating role of individual differences (e.g. agreeableness and conscientiousness) in the justice-CWB relationship. Hopefully, by conducting this longitudinal cross-cultural research in collectivist and individualist societies, it will provide better understanding the notion of justice, and predictors of CWB, in order to undermine such enormous costs of CWB.