Abstract

The study examined individual and situational factors as predictors of organisational deviance and the mediating role of organisational culture among federal civil servants in the six states of southern-west, Nigeria. A total number of nine hundred and fifty-seven (957) federal civil servants were purposively selected from fifteen (15) randomly selected ministries by the researchers. The participants consisted of 568 males (59.4% ) and 389 females ( 40.6%), 489 of the participants ages range between 41-60 (51.1% ), 227 are within the age range of 36- 40 ( 23.7%), and 241 are within 18-35 years (25.2%). The results revealed that respondents’ locus of control, age, educational qualification and tenure jointly predicted organisational deviance (R2 = 0.18, F (4,195) = 10.37, p < .001), while locus of control (β =-.14, t = -4.30, p<.01) had a significant independent prediction on organisational deviance. The results further revealed that respondents’ perceived organisational support, perceived workplace stress and justice jointly predicted organisational deviance (R2 = 0.07, F (3,956) = 24.01, p < .001), while perceived workplace stress (β =-.21, t = -6.10, p<.05) and organisational justice (β =-.11, t = 3.11, p<.05) were significant independent predictors of organisational deviance. The result further demonstrated that organisational culture fully mediated the relationship between organisational justice (z = 6.45, p<.001), and organisational deviance. Also, organisational culture partially mediated the relationship between occupational stress (z = 7.04, p<.01) and organisational deviance. Implications of findings were discussed.