Previous research studies indicate that deviant behaviours that violate established norms, policies and rules of the organisation cause significant loss to the organization as well as its members.The purpose of this paper therefore is to examine the predictors of deviant workplace behaviour. A typology of deviant workplace behaviour developed by Bennet & Robinsson (1995) isused as reference to understand the types of deviant behaviours exhibited by employees. The current study is a literature review which aims to bring forward the factors that have potential to result in deviant employee behaviour. Findings reveal that abusive supervision, reward allocation, demographic variables, organisational climate, organisational justice, personality, workload, job stress and family to work conflict are some of the most common predictors of workplace deviant behaviour.