Abstract
Ph.D. (Employment Relations)
Some of the most common behaviours in the Nigerian banking industry comprise workplace
deviant behaviours. Some people perceive workplace deviant behaviours as that, which are
controlled actions by employees and which are dissimilar to important organisational
standards, whilst threatening the welfare of an organisation, its members, or both. These
perspectives about workplace deviant behaviours are not any different from what they are
perceived to be in Nigeria’s banking industry. In the face of growing interests in understanding
and reducing workplace deviant behaviours in the banking industry, some related issues are
still either flouted or have not been properly examined.
The chief target of the investigation was to look at the influence of leadership styles,
psychological contract breach, and work stress on workplace deviant behaviours. The
investigation examined leadership styles (transactional and transformational) that can predict
workplace deviant behaviour, and determined the extent to which psychological contract
breach predicts workplace deviant behaviours. In addition, the study determined the extent to
which work stress predicts workplace deviant behaviours, and the association between
leadership styles, psychological contract breach, work stress and workplace deviant
behaviours. Furthermore, the investigation developed a theoretical framework that could be
used to effectively address workplace deviant behaviours, and hence contribute to the academic
body of knowledge.
The researcher conducted a literature review of past studies within the Nigerian context,
focussing on transactional and transformational leadership styles in the banking industry. The
reviewed literature included issues related to employees’ observations of psychological
contract breach, and their experience of work stress.
The present study relied on a quantitative methodology approach. Hence, a quantitative
research design was chosen for this study, as it used a research sample to apply to the entire
population. A total of 600 respondents were targeted for quantitative research, using a
questionnaire to gather data. The findings were analysed by the use of the statistical package
for social sciences (SPSS v24). However, preceding data collection, the research instruments
were exposed to validity and reliability tests. Ten hypotheses were generated from the
literature, and these hypotheses were tested with some statistical tools, namely correlation and
multiple linear regression. Hypotheses 1 to 9 were tested with correlation, while the 10th...