Employee Perceptions of Workplace Theft Behavior: A Study Among Supermarket Retail Employees in Malaysia |
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| Authors: | M Krishna Moorthy A Seetharaman Nahariah Jaffar Yeap Peik Foong |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Business and Finance, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahmankrishnam@utar.edu.my;3. Academic Affairs, S P Jain School of Global Management;4. Faculty of Management, Multimedia University |
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| Abstract: | Employee theft is costly to any business, especially to big retail chain organizations. This research is to study the perception of retail employees on the impact of the individual and organizational factors contributing to workplace theft behavior in supermarkets in Malaysia and to study the mediating effect of intention to steal and the moderating effect of internal control systems. The results proved that individual and organizational factors do influence workplace theft behavior. It is also established that internal control systems moderate the relationship between the intention to steal and workplace theft behavior. |
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| Keywords: | employee theft internal control retail shrinkage workplace theft workplace theft behavior Malaysia |
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