Employee sabotage occurs when an employee intentionally inflicts damage on the organization or one of its members, ultimately inflicting a loss in production or profit.
Damage is usually against the property, reputation, product, or service of the company.
Such individuals, while involved in sabotage would not be classified as employee saboteurs, since their aim is not related to their employee function, but to advocacy positions. Problems in Understanding and Preventing Emloyee Sabotage Attempts to prevent sabotage are hampered due to a lack of understanding. A clear concept of workplace sabotage is non-existent, leaving managers and security personnel to rely on opinion and conjecture. The clandestine actions prevent identification and complicate the understanding. But more difficult is the similarity among events that occurred for other reasons and could be construed as sabotage.