Table 2.

Comparison of behavior in PWB and NWB labels.

CWB	Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB): employee behavior that contributes to organizational performance considered including a variety of related constructs as innovative and spontaneous behavior (Katz, 1964), contextual performance (Borman and Motowidlo, 1993) and pro-social behaviors (Brief and Motowidlo, 1986), it may be person- or task related (Settoon and Mossholder, 2002)
Injustice	Organizational justice: is concerned with the outcomes, processes, and interactions within the organization. Distributive justice is concerned with the fairness of outcomes, procedural justice is defined as the fairness of the process that leads to decisions, and interactional justice is concerned with the quality of interactional treatment during enactment of procedures (Liljegren and Ekberg, 2009).
Incivility	Civility: (Ghosh et al., 2011), respect and engagement in the workplace (CREW) seeks to develop a work environment defined by civility and reduce acceptance of inappropriate behavior in the workplace (Osatuke et al., 2009)
Unsafety	Social safety: is protected from the likelihood of risk, harm (Edwards et al., 2013), prevent and downsize unsafety (Brewer et al., 2018)
Aggression	Professional aggression: socially accepted forms of aggression in the workplace, such as maintaining order, actions during strikes, and working in war zones (Kelloway et al., 2005)
Bullying	Leader bullying: strategically selected tactics of influence by leaders designed to convey a particular image and place targets in a submissive, powerless position whereby they are easily influenced and controlled, in order to achieve personal and/or organizational objectives (Ferris et al., 2007)
Harassment/ Discrimination	Positive discrimination: reversing the discrimination against the dominant majority (Webb, 1997; Noon, 2010)
Deviance	Positive and constructive deviance: workplace behaviors that intentionally depart from norms in honorable ways, either at an individual or organizational level (Spreitzer and Sonenshein, 2004), constructive deviance (Vadera et al., 2013)
Interpersonal conflict	Task-related interpersonal conflict entails positive behavior and outcomes in task related conditions to improve group decision making and prevent groupthink (Janis, 1972; Cosier and Schwenk, 1990; Brodbeck et al., 2002; Raver and Barling, 2007)
Micropolitics	Productive micropolitics: productive functions of organizational politics (micropolitics) (Neuberger, 2006).
Ostracism	Ostracism: powerful social influence tool to protect members and group identity, a signal to targets that their behavior needs correction, to remove deviant individuals (Hales et al., 2016)

Positive work behavior (PWB) positive alternative of primary construct NWB.