THE DARK SIDE OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND A RESEARCH ON INVESTIGATION OF TURKISH LITERATURE

Having positive attitudes and behaviors of human resource is critical in order to an organization can provide competitive advantage by reaching its goals. Reflections of the negative attitudes and behaviors of the human who is the most important source of organization, are named as the dark side of the organizational behavior. The dark side of organizational behavior which defined as any action that an organization member or a group of members intentionally do to harm others, is an important phenomenon in terms of the negative consequences and influences. The aim of this study is to provide detailed information to the implementation units about the causes, consequences and measures to be taken for such behaviors that are a major source of problems for organizations, and to shed light on the studies to be done thereafter by determining the distribution and direction of the studies done in Turkey. For this purpose, secondary data analysis method (a quantitative data collection technique) has been used and 273 articles were found under the heading "The Dark Side of Organizational Behavior" in online magazines published between 2010-2017 in the ULAKB？M Turkish Academic Archive database. As a result of these analyzes, it was observed that 79 (28,94%) of these articles were related to mobbing, 65 (23,81%) were related to cynical behaviors and 43 (15,75%) were related to organizational silence and these articles constitute a large part of the studies (68,5%) on the dark side of organizational behavior. As a result of this study, researches on less studied subjects on the dark side of organizational behavior will contribute to the solution of this problem by providing valuable information to the application units