AbstractsPsychology

This study examined the relation between employee attitudes toward executivecompensation and counterproductive work behavior directed at individuals and the organization.Results indicated that employee attitudes toward executive compensation were related to abusetoward others in the workplace. Contrary to expectations, employee attitudes toward executivecompensation were not related to counterproductive behavior directed at the organization.Furthermore, organizational and work-group identification did not moderate this relation asexpected. Finally, results differed for men and women. Men’s attitudes toward executivecompensation were related to abuse toward others, but women’s attitudes were related toproduction deviance. Thus, negative attitudes toward executive compensation may be associatedwith different deviant behavior for men and women. Whereas men are more likely to engage innegative behavior toward other people (e.g., yelling), women are more likely to engage innegative behavior toward their work (e.g., work slowly).