Predicting cyberloafing through psychological needs with. Time lost due to cyberloafing can have substantial impact on productivity. Most popular terms used in the litareture are cyberloafing, cyberslacking and nonwork related computing. The moderating effect of neutralization technique on organizational justice and cyberloafing, pacific asia conference on information systems, pacis 2005, bangkok, thailand, july 710, 207219. The relationship between cyberloafing and task performance. In this vein, theemergence of the internet in different aspects of life is considered to be the greatestdevelopment of the 21st century. At the same time, employees are increasingly using these technologies for nonworkrelated purposes during office hours, which is called personal internet usage in the workplace piu.
Read an investigation of the impact of demographics on cyberloafing from an educational setting angle, computers in human behavior on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. This behavior is considered unproductive and has a significant impact on individuals and organizations. The role of trust, perceived risk, and their antecedents. The influence of cyberloafing on library and information. That is, various studies found that cyberloafing can have a positive, negative or no significant impact on work performance. These it devices have greatly facilitated the performance of job tasks for employees. The impact of cyberloafing and physical exercise on. Abstract the purpose of this study is to find out the relationship between cyber loafing and organizational citizenship behavior ocb. Within this regard, the cyberloafing behavior scale was applied to 124 university students to examine the reasons of students cyberloafing behaviors. Nonworkrelated use of personal mobile phones by hospital. The motives underlying why people cyberloaf is an area which warrants future research attention as it may shed light on why cyberloafing yields positive benefits in some situations but not others. Effects of cognitive load on processing and performance.
Cyberloafing, or spending work time using the internet for nonwork activities, is a major concern for employers, as access to the internet has expanded through the use of smart phones, tablets, and other electronic devices. This study was conducted because there is a risk posed on patients safety if nurses are cyberloafing and if this behavior has a direct relation with procrastination and lack of conscientiousness. Organizational identification and proactive work behaviour. A critical study of factors promoting cyberloafing in. Department of management and organization, national university. Pdf age and gender differences in employee cyberloafing. This study was the beginning or preliminary method using descriptive methods that examine cyberloafing of workers, as a new form of problems in the work environment so that they need to be watched and anticipated in order to increase employee and organizational productivity. Relationships between the dark triad, perceived ability to deceive and cyberloafing the rapid growth of digitally mediated work means that nontraditional forms of counterproductive workplace behaviours are emerging, such as cyberloafing. The findings of this study highlight a wide range of types of personal web usage amongst teachers ranging from sending personal emails to social. Doorns 2011 cyberloafing questionnaire and innovative work behavior scale. Secondly, we examined whether employees objective selfcontrol can mediate the dampening effect of employees.
A modern example is staff who use their work internet access for personal reasons, which can lead to inefficiency. As well, our findings suggest that browsing activities have a positive impact on employees emotion while emailing activities have a negative impact. Age and gender differences in employee cyberloafing behavior. Achieve a higher level of operational excellence by improving employee productivity. Disentangling how coworkers and supervisors influence. Often considered as cyberslacking or internet abuse, pwu is a growing phenomenon within increasingly internetdependent workplaces. Megan mcdaniel, karishma sharma, derek dougan, zach baker 2. The data for this study was gathered from 360 public workers in the province of erzurumturkey. Designing electronic use policies to enhance employee perceptions of fairness and to reduce cyberloafing. Does cyberloafing really harm employees work performance. Overall, the impact of cyberloafing on work performance is inconclusive with mixed findings. The digital workforce and the workplace of the future. This indicates an increase of creativity due to cyberloafing at work despite some. Data generated were analyzed using descriptive statistics.
A sample of 1,050 undergraduate students at a large university in china reported their inclass n 548 and outofclass n 502 cyberloafing activities, which were tested against the students academic. Evidence from the laboratory and a daylight saving time quasiexperiment. We also examined gender differences in employees perception towards cyberloafing. Given its observed rise in public service in nigeria. Entering into the third millennium and current information age, organizations andpeople are increasingly using technologies and networks. The mediating role of interactional justice and the moderating role of power distance.
Nonworkrelated use of personal mobile phones or other communication devices at work was significantly correlated with age. We expected that employees future orientation was negatively associated with the frequency of their cyberloafing behaviors. The rapid growth of digitally mediated work means that nontraditional forms of counterproductive workplace behaviours are emerging, such as cyberloafing. The purpose of this study is to investigate the reasons and factors for cyberloafing behavior. In this study, we take an opposing view and argue that cyberloafing can serve a potentially positive function in that it can help employees cope with workplace boredom. Is cyberloafing more complex than we originally thought. In this manner not very many studies are recognized in a broad writing hunt, examined cyberloafing from a positive viewpoint. In general, respondents felt that some form of cyberloafing at work was acceptable. We also examined gender differences in employees perception towards. Cyberloafing which means voluntary acts of employees using their companies internet access and it equipments for nonworkrelated purposes during working time, emerges as an increasingly important issue which needs to be managed in organizations.
Results of our study provide useful insights for researchers and managers in understanding employees attitudes towards cyberloafing, and how cyberloafing can result in gain or drain in employees. The relationship between cyber loafing and organizational. Although there are some growing body of literature which tries to provide understanding regarding this subject and discuss. Department of management and organization, national university of. Built upon an innovative perspective, a laboratory quasiexperimental study was developed where a total of 124 participants performed two different tasksa cognitive task measuring errors and omissions. Chen a department of management and organization, national university of singapore, singapore. This study aims to examine the consonant and dissonant effects that cyberloafing and physical exercise may have on individuals performance as activities of occupying rest breaks at work. Organizations are experiencing an increase in cyberloafing behavior garrett and. Personality was assessed in terms of the fivefactor model of personality, whereas workrelated factors were assessed in terms of the availability of social network sites at work, policies prohibiting cyberloafing, work demand, empowering leadership. The findings revealed that the dimensionality of cyberloafing plays a role in determining its impact on work performance. Article pdf available in behaviour and information technology 314. The aim of this correlational study was to predict cyberloafing through basic psychological needs with conscientiousness and goalorientation as mediators. So while cyberloafing is an increasing trend, its debatable whether its an actual threat to an organizations productivity according to some research. Hence, as workers engage in bit of online games, social networking, checking.
Gain or drain on work behaviour and information technology, vol. Cyberloafing involves an unproductive use of time in the workplace and distracts employees from their responsibilities and duties. Workplace cyberloafing personal use of the internet during working hours has been recognized as a form of counterproductive work behavior cwb that can harm organizations. The dampening effect of employees future orientation on. A total of 321 students were selected using stratified proportional sampling and the final. It is well established that social norms play a role in cyberloafing, but it is unknown what specific normative information employees attend to when. Cyberloafing management in organizations semantic scholar. Sorry, we are unable to provide the full text but you may find it at the following locations.
Thus, whether cyberloafing results in gain or drain on work can be further understood by examining what motivate people to engage in it. This article presents findings from an online survey of teachers concerning personal web use pwu at work. Chen department of management and organization, national university of singapore, 1 business link, singapore. Men were also more likely to report that cyberloafing has a positive impact on work compared to women.
In recent decades,technological progresses have rapidly dominated the world. A trustbased consumer decisionmaking model in electronic commerce. Improving employee efficiency project 6 bbus 330 fall 2015 team 1. Cyberloafingthe use of an electronic device at work for an activity that an immediate supervisor would not consider workrelatedis now the most common way that employees waste time at work. Cyberloafing is a growing organizational vice with resource and productivity consequences. Student cyberloafing in and out of the classroom in china. Female workers are one of the important assets in the workplace, but are not always able to work optimally because they prefer cyberloafing activities.
Abstract this study investigates the inclass and outofclass cyberloafing activities of students in china, and tests the relationship between those activities and academic performance. The dark and bright sides of personal use of technology at. The effects of sanctions and stigmas on cyberloafing. Most popular papers lee kong chian school of business. Cyberloafing, neutralizing and organizational justice, journal of organizational behaviour, 23 2002 675694. Respondents under 30 years of age were more likely to use their personal mobile phone or other communication device at work for nonworkrelated activities than those over the age of 30 years.
As a result of the study, we found out that there was no relationship between cyber loafing and organizational citizenship behavior. To explore definitions, frequencies, and motivation for personal use of work computers, we analyzed 329 employees responses to an online survey, which asked participants to selfreport frequencies for 41 computer behaviors at work. Predictors of use of social network sites at work a. The statistical population consisted of all undergraduate students of faculty of humanities at mazandaran university during the academic year of 2016.
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