Abstract: Employees are likely to engage in deviance behavior, when they feel that they are not punished for their acts. Deviance behavior by employees overcomes the organization efficiency and performance.In order to overcome such deviance behavior in an organization, leader role becomes very important to change the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of employees. The purpose of this research study is to investigate the relationship between psychological empowerment,transformational leadership and workplace deviance behavior. For this research study, the data is collected from the telecommunication sector of Pakistan. It is empirically investigated in this research study that psychological empowerment given to employees is the significant factor for decreasing the workplace deviance behavior in an organization and transformational leadership also plays a significant role to overcome such deviance behavior by employees.
Keywords: Workplace Deviance Behavior, Psychological Empowerment, Transformational leadership
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