Positive and Negative Work Behaviors' Links: A Field Study

This paper analyses the links between Organizational Citizenship and Counterproductive Work Behaviors (OCB and CWB), using both the moral licensing and the moral cleansing theories in order to suggest a reconciliation of these two perspectives. After a reminder of the theoretical grounding, the methodology and the results of a field study conducted in an industrial organization in Poland are presented. We identified three groups of employees: “cool guys”, “good citizens” and “at ease bad apples” and suggest three corresponding processes of links between their positive and negative behaviors