Impact Of Work From Home On Deviant Workplace Behaviour In Educational Institutes During Covid 19: A Conceptual Study

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Madhumita Roy, Dr. Anirban Mandal, Dr. Sanmitra Sarkar

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The purpose of this paper is to study prior research work on work from home and deviant workplace behaviour and to come up with a conceptual model that can be empirically validated. A keyword approach has been used to study early research work done on work from home and deviant workplace behaviour. The paper mainly focused on the impact of work from home during pandemic situation of Covid 19. The study included conceptual papers, empirical papers and review literatures published in published in English language journals. Educational institutes took a drastic change of work process from offline mode to online mode. Work from home through digital platform has become the new normal. Factors which impacted work from home are internet connectivity, limitation of geographical boundary, demotivation, psychological breach of contract, stress, communication gap, distraction, abusive leadership. Work from home has a significant relationship with deviant workplace behaviour. Employee engagement is the mediating variable between work from home and deviant workplace behaviour and abusive supervision is the moderating variable between work from home and deviant workplace behaviour. This is the first paper on deviant workplace behaviour due to work from home in educational institutes. This paper has included all the researches done during pandemic situation of Covid 19 and has studied the various factors that impacts the employees during work from home and how employee engagement acts as a mediating factor between work from home and deviant workplace behaviour.

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