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Yours defensively: The Role of Organizational Attachment in Shoplifting Prevention
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Potdar, B and Guthrie, J and Gnoth, J and Garry, T, Yours defensively: The Role of Organizational Attachment in Shoplifting Prevention, Proceedings of the British Academy of Management Conference 2018 : Driving Productivity in Uncertain and Challenging Times, September 2018, Bristol, United Kingdom, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9780995641310 (2018) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Abstract
An office is a physical location where people of the same organization meet and interact with
each other. Many organizations provide comfortable workplaces to their employees and
motivate them to give their best. However, just comfortable workplaces might not motivate
employees to perform their best unless interpersonal justice is merged with it to convince
employees that their organization values them. It results in employee organisational
attachment. In the context of the supermarkets, this concept is particularly prevalent as shopfloor employees are the main workforce of this industry. Hence, the principal aim of this
research paper is to explore whether organizational attachment of shop-floor employees of a
supermarket has an impact on their willingness to prevent shoplifting and practice positive
organisational citizenship. This paper reviews relevant literature on shoplifting prevention,
guardianship, workplace attachment, organizational attachment, and organizational citizenship
behaviour. The systematic review of guardianship literature is the strength of this paper as we
have reviewed a total of 20 studies from the past. Finally, we propose a conceptual model which
suggests that organisational attachment based on interpersonal justice of the supermarket
impacts on the willingness of shop-floor employees to prevent shoplifting; this means the
employees may demonstrate guardianship that is a good organisational citizenship behaviour.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Place attachment; Interpersonal or interactional justice; Organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB); Retail crime prevention; Guardianship; Routine activity theory |
| Research Division: | Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services |
| Research Group: | Marketing |
| Research Field: | Marketing theory |
| Objective Division: | Economic Framework |
| Objective Group: | Management and productivity |
| Objective Field: | Marketing |
| UTAS Author: | Potdar, B (Dr Balkrushna Potdar) |
| ID Code: | 137486 |
| Year Published: | 2018 |
| Deposited By: | TSBE |
| Deposited On: | 2020-02-17 |
| Last Modified: | 2022-09-05 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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