RESEARCH PROJECT
(BMBR5103)
FACTORS AFFECT DEVIANT BEHAVIOR
OF EMPLOYEES IN HOA PHAT GROUP
STUDENT’S FULL NAME
STUDENT ID
INTAKE
ADVISOR’S NAME & TITLE
: NGUYỄN PHƯƠNG QUỲNH
: CGS00018259
: MAY 2014
: NGUYỄN THẾ KHẢI (DBA)
August, 2015
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This project consumed huge amount of work, research and dedication. Still,
implementation would not have been possible if I did not have a support of many
individuals and organizations. Therefore I would like to extend our sincere gratitude to
all of them.
First of all I am thankful to Mr Nguyen The Khai (DBA),who has support my class
how to do a research project and apply SPSS software into research. Moreover, he had
even personally gone through and give valuable advised to every individual in class.
With his superior knowledge and experience, the research project would like in quality
of outcomes, and thus his support has been very essential.
I would like to express sincere thanks toward employees of Hoa Phat Group who
devoted their time and knowledge in the implementation of this project.
Nevertheless, I also specially thank to my family and colleagues for their kind cooperation and encouragement which help me in completion of this project.
Once again, I thank very much to all.
Nguyen Phuong Quynh Student
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES .......................................................................................................... 8
ABSTRACT ..................................................................................................................... 9
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................ 10
INTRODUCTION ABOUT HOA PHAT GROUP .................................................... 10
Overview of the company ............................................................................................ 10
Business activities ....................................................................................................... 12
Business objectives ...................................................................................................... 13
Group structure ........................................................................................................... 14
RESEARCH INTRODUCTION ................................................................................. 16
Research problem statement ....................................................................................... 16
Significance of research ............................................................................................. 17
Research objective ....................................................................................................... 17
Research questions ..................................................................................................... 18
Limitation of research ................................................................................................ 18
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CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW AND HYPOTHESES ............................. 19
LITERATURE REVIEW ............................................................................................. 19
Job Characteristic (Job Overload) ............................................................................. 19
Job Stress ..................................................................................................................... 20
Job Roles (Role Conflict And Ambiguity) .................................................................. 22
Work-Family Conflict ................................................................................................. 24
Deviant Behavior ........................................................................................................ 27
HYPOTHESES .............................................................................................................. 27
RESEARCH MODEL .................................................................................................. 28
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHOD .................................................................... 29
DATA COLLECTION METHOD .............................................................................. 29
MEASURE OF EACH CONSTRUCT ....................................................................... 29
Job Overload ............................................................................................................... 29
Job Stress ..................................................................................................................... 31
Role Conflict And Ambiguity ..................................................................................... 33
Work-Family Conflict ................................................................................................. 36
Deviant Behavior ........................................................................................................ 38
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CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS AND RESULTS ............................................................ 41
CRONBACH'S ALPHA (RELIABILITY) ................................................................. 41
Cronbach's Alpha standard applied ........................................................................... 41
CRONBACH'S ALPHA OF CONSTRUCTS ............................................................ 42
Job Overload (JO) ....................................................................................................... 42
Job Stress (JS) ............................................................................................................. 42
Role Conflict And Ambiguity (RC) ............................................................................ 43
Work-Family Conflict (WF) ....................................................................................... 43
Deviant Behavior (DB) ............................................................................................... 44
STATISTICS INFORMATION .................................................................................. 44
Descriptive statistics .................................................................................................... 44
HYPOTHESIS TESTING ............................................................................................ 45
HYPOTHESIS PROPOSED ........................................................................................ 45
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION .................................................................................... 47
SUMMARY OF THE RESULT .................................................................................. 47
DISCUSSION AND RECOMMENDATION ............................................................. 48
Discussion .................................................................................................................. 48
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Recommendation......................................................................................................... 49
LIMITATION ............................................................................................................... 51
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................. 52
APPENDIX .................................................................................................................... 58
Appendix 1: Survey ..................................................................................................... 58
Appendix 2: Presentation ........................................................................................... 70
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LIST OF TABLE
Table 1: Group Structure............................................................................................ 14
Table 2: Corporation Structure ................................................................................... 15
Table 3 : Research model ............................................................................................ 28
Table 4: Cronbach 's Alpha - Internal Consistency .................................................... 42
Table 5: Cronbach's Alpha of Job Overload ............................................................... 42
Table 6: Cronbach's Alpha of Job Stress .................................................................... 42
Table 7: Cronbach's Alpha of Role Conflict and Ambiguity ....................................... 43
Table 8: Cronbach's Alpha of Work - Family Conflict ............................................... 43
Table 9: Cronbach's Alpha of Deviant Behavior ........................................................ 44
Table 10: Descriptive statistics ................................................................................... 44
Table 11: Model summary ........................................................................................... 45
Table 12: Coefficients .................................................................................................. 46
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ABSTRACT
This purpose of this research in way to find the factors attractive deviant behavior at
Hoa Phat Group.
This research analyses whether or not there is a significant relationship between
Deviant Behavior with Job Overload, Job Stress, Role Conflict and Ambiguity and
Work - Family Conflict among employees in Hoa Phat Group. This research also was
conducted by quantitative method with source data is surveys that it collected via
questionnaire from 268 employees of Hoa Phat Group.
This result of these surveys shall be statistically analyzed by software SPSS version 22.
Hypotheses used this research includes five construct: one dependent construct
(Deviant Behavior) and four independent constructs: Job Overload, Job Stress, Role
Conflict and Ambiguity and Work - Family Conflict.
I hope this research will help CEO and managers of Hoa Phat Group have some
reference in order to have some strategies on how to minimize job stress, conflicts so
that employees can be more efficient and productive in the workplace.
Keywords in this research: Deviant Behavior, Job Overload, Job Stress, Role Conflict
and Ambiguity, Work - Family Conflict.
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CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION ABOUT HOA PHAT GROUP
Overview of the company
Hoa Phat Group is one of the leading private industrial production groups in Vietnam.
Starting with a trading company specializing in construction machines since 8/1992,
Hoa Phat alternately extended to the field of Furniture (1995), Steel Pipe (1996), Steel
(2000), Refrigeration (2001), Real Estate (2001). In 2007, Hoa Phat restructured to a
Group model, in which Hoa Phat Group Joint Stock Company is the parent company
and other member companies and allied companies. In 15/11/2007, Hoa Phat was
officially listed in the Vietnam Stock Exchange with ticker “HPG”.
After the restructure, Hoa Phat has many great strides in which the most prominent
progress was implementing of Hoa Phat steel integrated complex project in Hai Duong
province with the steel production technology from iron ore to steel, and invest to
exploit minerals to create input for steel production. Currently, Hoa Phat is located at
Top 3 of largest steel producers in Viet Nam.
As at 1/2014, Hoa Phat Group has 13 member companies with the major businesses:
Steel production - Mining – Coke production – Real estate - Furniture Manufacturing –
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Construction accessories and equipment with many factories in Ha Noi, Hung Yen, Hai
Duong, Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Ha Giang, HCM City, Binh Duong province.
The steel production and related products such as coke, iron ore accounted for over
80% of revenue are key business of the Group. Hoa Phat Furniture is a reputable brand
with the largest market share of office furniture in Vietnam. Besides, real estate,
industrial park, urban area is also another key sector of the Group.
The annual revenue of Hoa Phat Group reaches about USD 900 millions and plan to
reach USD 1,2 billions in 2014.
Hoa Phat Group profile
Transaction name: Hoa Phat Group Joint Stock Company
Business Registration Certificate No.: 0900189284
Charter capital: VND4,886,431,750,000
Address: Pho Noi A Industrial Zone, Giai Pham Commune, Yen My District, Hung
Yen Province
Head Office: 39 Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Le Dai Hanh Ward, Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi
Phone: (84) 4 62848666
Fax: (84) 4 62833456
Da Nang Branch 171 Truong Chinh, An Khe Ward, Thanh Khe District, Da Nang City
Phone: (84) 511 3721232
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Fax: (84) 511 3722833
HCM City Branch: 643 Dien Bien Phu, Ward 25, Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh
City
Phone: (84) 8 62985599
Fax: (84) 8 62987799
Website: www.hoaphat.com.vn
Business activities
1 Trading, exporting and importing iron and steel, materials and equipments for
refining and rolling steel;
2 Producing rolling steel and roof fabrication;
3 Producing steel pipes and galvanized ones, stainless ones;
4 Producing and trading non-ferrous metal and non-ferrous metal scrap;
5 Refining steel and casting iron;
6 Manufacturing and trading coke coal;
7 Mining for metal ores; trading metals, metal ores and metal scrap;
8 Manufacturing and trading construction and mining equipment;
9 Producing interior furniture for offices, households and schools;
10 Manufacturing, trading, assembling, repairing, and maintaining electric,
electronic, refrigeration, civil electric products and air conditioners;
11 Investing and building infrastructure for industrial zones and urban areas;
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12 Real estate business.
Business Objectives
Vision
Become the leading industrial production group of Vietnam, operating diversified with
the strong fields including steel production, the traditional industries and real estate
Mission
- Harmonize with the development of society, product always towards benefits of
customers
- Sustainable cooperation, reliable partner, bringing long-term value to shareholders
- Promote talent, wisdom and bring better life to members of the company
- Prospects of investment expansion to contribute significantly to the prosperity of
Vietnam
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Group structure
(Table 1: Group Structure)
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(Table 2: Corporate Structure)
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RESEARCH INTRODUCTION
Research problem statement
Workers today certainly
have
more
stress
due
to
the
increased
responsibility and work added due to smaller workforce. Stress is a serious problem for
front office employees.
This study is to investigate both employees in predicting workplace deviance. Deviant
workplace behavior is a prevailing and costly phenomenon in Hoa Phat Group. It
includes a wide range of negative acts conducted by employees to harm the
organization and its members. The research have identified that deviant workplace
behavior is a very serious problem in Hoa Phat Group. To reducing deviant
organizational behavior because it can be a very disruptive and costly problem in terms
of both the financial toll it takes in the company and the emotional toll it takes in
employees. Deviance has often been recognized as a reaction to frustrating
organizational stressors, such as financial, social, and working conditions found that
the increasing tension in corporations that has resulted from economic changes,
increasing global competitiveness, work - family conflict, role conflict has led to
significant levels of misconduct.
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With regard this problem, this study was conducted to examine the relationship
between Deviant Behavior with Job Overload, Job Stress, Work - Family Conflict and
Role Conflict and Ambiguity in Hoa Phat Group.
Significance of Research
With the research results, management of the company could adjust the policy and set
out a strategy to help employees by decreasing work tension. In addition, employees
can balance between work and family in order to enjoy happy life. Besides, it also
improve employee loyalty to the organization and further, contributed to the strengths
of the company increasingly stronger in the future.
Research objective
This study mainly seeks to achieve the following objectives:
1. To investigate the reasons why the employee stress in the workplace.
2. To identify the factors that may to cause deviant behaviors.
3. To suggest some solutions based on research finding to decrease deviant
behaviors.
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Research questions
Based on the discussion above, and to accomplish the objective of this study, these
research questions have been formulated:
1. How is the impact job overload on deviant behavior?
2. How is the impact job stress scale on deviant behavior?
3. How is the impact work - family conflict on deviant behavior?
4. How is the impact role conflict and ambiguity on deviant behavior?
Limitation of research
This research will have some limitation because it only focuses related on Hoa Phat
Group employees.
Secondly, this survey conducted in slightly short time. A total of 300 questionnaires,
only 268 responses were usable. The rest 32 questionnaires have most of the questions
leave blank or disappear.
Furthermore, this survey use English which make confusion for the reader when they
answer it.
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CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW AND
HYPOTHESE
LITERATUTE REVIEW
Job Characteristics ( Job Overload)
Job overload represents the weight of the hours, the sacrifice of time, and the sense of
frustration with the inability to complete tasks in the time given. Gmelch et al. (1992)
cite the time, pace, and pressure as major factors contributing to stress and burnout. Job
overload arises as a complex factor in the qualitative studies conducted by Duke (1988)
and Whitaker (1996). Duke interviewed high achieving principals who considered
leaving their jobs.
Having too much to do with too little time to do it is a common perception in the
workplace. This problem, often referred to as work or role overload, can be caused by a
variety of factors. Things such as unrealistic deadlines, lack of appropriate break
periods, and increasingly heightened expectations are common causes of work-related
stress that exist throughout a wide variety of occupations (Shimazu & Kosugi, 2003).
Other harmful factors that are related to work overload include rapid change,
disordered multitasking, uncertainty, and interruptions during work. While it is
possible for many hours of concentration on a well-defined job to have a positive effect
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on a person’s mental state, it is also possible for less than an hour of chaos in the
workplace to have a hazardous effect on a person’s health (Zohar, 1999).
People who serve as managers and supervisors are most susceptible to work
overload. One potential explanation for this is the open-ended nature of the managerial
job (Johns & Saks, 2001). The difficulties encountered when trying to juggle the
demands of superiors with the needs of subordinates has the potential to provoke a lot
of stress. Different personality types can also result in different ways of handling a
heavy workload. For example, research indicates that introverts have notably different
coping mechanisms for stress than extroverts (Dormann & Zapf, 2002). These
mechanisms can vary in effectiveness when handling organizational stressors such as
work overload. Another factor that relates to how people are influenced by heavy
workloads is sex. For males, work stress is more strongly related to concerns about
roles in the power structure of an organization, whereas female employees experience
more severe stress when a conflict exists between job requirements and family
relationships (Vagg, Spielberger, & Wasala, 2002).
Job Stress
Job Stress is basically the negative effects of excessive pressure or other types
of demand placed on employees at work. Stress is not a disease it is a state, but if stress
becomes excessive disease for a very long time then it effects on mental and physical
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