Abstract
Abstract. The present study is to survey the role of excitement cognitive adjustment and identification categories on emerging the counterproductive behavior. For this purpose, 306 samples of engineering management employees and the drilling national company building of Iran South Oil areas were selected using random sampling in order to exploit Corcoran formula. Used data by 3 questionnaires of Bent and Robison's (2003) counterproductive behavior, Persian questionnaire BFI (Oliver and Gohen, 1991) for identity categories, and questionnaire Persian form of cognitive excitement adjustment (2012) was collected and tested by Pearson-correlation test. The study results showed that there has been a meaningful relation in neurosis, empiricism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, blame himself, coping, positive thinking, blame others, cognitive excitement adjustment except extrovert, but there is a negative relation among empiricism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, blame himself, coping, positive thinking, blame others, cognitive excitement adjustment and extrovert except neurosis.