ABSTRACT
Existing research suggests that employee deviance is highest in occupational settings that rely heavily on "marginal" workers—especially those who are young with little tenure—who believe that they are treated unfairly by their employers. Contrary to expectations, a slightly different explanatory solution emerged for each of the three forms of employee deviance. Involvement in altruistic property deviance was solely a function of age—engaged in almost exclusively by employees younger than 21 years. Employee deviance includes both "acts by employees against the property of the organization and the violations of the norms regulating acceptable levels of production". A limited number of primarily qualitative studies have already examined various forms of employee deviance occurring within the restaurant milieu. A variant of personal property deviance, altruistic property deviance is the giving away of company property and assets to others at no charge or at substantial discount.
