The Effect of Five Factor Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability on Counterproductive Work Behavior

Abstract

Counterproductive work behaviors which can be defined as an intentional employee behavior violating an organization's legitimate interests by being potentially harmful to the organization, organization's property, process or its members and caused not to fulfill organization's objectives, are being researched frequently nowadays because of its huge amount of cost to the organizations. It is seen that researchs are mainly focused on to define what are the antecedents of counterproductive work behaviors.