Countraproductive Organizational Behaviour ？ What We Know and What We Can?

Sa？etak The paper attends to clarify contraproductive work as behavior that is extremely damaging to the whole organization. Contraproductive work behavior is described through the dimensions, the theoretical setting of the development of such behavior as well as the relationship with other similar constructs such as violence, retribution, revenge and deviantism. With regard to organizational and non-organizational efforts to prevent these behaviors, a Croatian legislative framework has been introduced which also deals with defining and anticipated sanctions for behavior that could harm other employees and/or organizations, as well as the possibility of organizational response in relation to the appearance of such undesirable behavior in the work context