how has cyber technology created opportunities for workplace deviance?

Workplace deviance: the deliberate (or intentional) desire to cause harm to an organization – more specifically, a workplace. Deviance can happen easily in the cyber field since it can happen online rather than in person. It roots in personal factors. Most acts have no commitment or care for their job. Workplace deviance is also closely related to abusive supervision. There’s also abusive supervision. Abusive supervision is defined as the “subordinates’ perceptions of the extent to which their supervisors engage in the sustained display of hostile verbal and nonverbal behaviors”. This could be when supervisors ridicule their employees, give them the silent treatment, remind them of past failures, fail to give proper credit, wrongfully assign blame or blow up in fits of temper” (Wikipedia).Workplace deviance may arise from the worker’s perception that their organization has mistreated him or her in some manner. Employees then resort to misbehaving (or acting out) as a means of avenging their organization for the perceived wrongdoing. Workplace deviance may be expressed in various ways. Employees can engage in minor, extreme, nonviolent or violent behavior, which ultimately leads to an organization’s decline in productivity. Interpersonal and organizational deviance are two forms of workplace deviance which are directed differently. Both cause harm to an organization.  If an employee was fired from a job before he left he could download sensitive information and sell it to rival companies for financial gain. More serious cases of deviant behavior harmful to an organization concern property deviance. Property deviance is “where employees either damage or acquire tangible assets without authorization”. This type of deviance typically involves theft but may include “sabotage, intentional errors in work, misusing expense accounts”, among other examples. The best way to prevent deviant behavior from becoming the norm in the workplace is for managers to set a clear tone that it won’t be tolerated and establish penalties for those who go down that road.