In The Power of Positive Deviance, authors Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, and Monique Sternin take their readers on a fascinating tour to learn about “positive deviance”—an approach to solving social ...

The "normalization of deviance" is a gradual process where unacceptable practices become standard because they are repeated without immediate catastrophic consequences, driven by human rationalization ...

Organizations typically strive to establish an atmosphere of conformity and teamwork to achieve maximum productivity and create a healthy corporate culture. In organizations of any size, deviant ...

We usually think of workplace deviance as linked to "bad apples"—the troublemakers who egregiously slack off, steal from the company or openly clash with coworkers. But what if deviant behavior was ...

The impact of employees’ constrictive deviance on job performance: The roles of ethical conflict and moral identity In today’s dynamic and uncertain organizational environment, employees’ proactivity ...

Before the space shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, NASA was aware of the problems that led to the catastrophe. However, because previous shuttle missions had lifted off without negative ...

When the sociologist Diane Vaughan came up with the term “the normalization of deviance,” she was referring to NASA administrators’ disregard of the flaw that caused the Challenger space shuttle to ...

Social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook drive about 26% of all traffic to online news stories according to the analytics provider Chartbeat–even more if you’re Upworthy or BuzzFeed, to the ...