Factors influencing employee’s cyberloafing in an organization

Purpose – The purpose of the present study is to investigate antecedent factors that influences cyberloafing at the workplace so as to aid management of organizations in developing policies and measures that will help reduce the rate cyberloafing in the organization. Methodology – Data were collect...

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Main Author: Bello, Muhammed Adeyinka
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42075/
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description Purpose – The purpose of the present study is to investigate antecedent factors that influences cyberloafing at the workplace so as to aid management of organizations in developing policies and measures that will help reduce the rate cyberloafing in the organization. Methodology – Data were collected from 175 employees who have an official appointment and internet access in an organization via convenience and snowball sampling. SPSS statistics 22 was utilised to analyse the collect data. Findings – The results show that cyberloafing was related to the four proposed factors namely social norms, job characteristics, job satisfaction, and job commitment. Though only social norms and job characteristics significantly influence employees’ cyberloafing at the workplace with the the other two factors not influencing it. Practical implications – In general the discussion in this study addresses practical implications of the research work.
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spelling nottingham-420752017-10-13T01:07:16Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42075/ Factors influencing employee’s cyberloafing in an organization Bello, Muhammed Adeyinka Purpose – The purpose of the present study is to investigate antecedent factors that influences cyberloafing at the workplace so as to aid management of organizations in developing policies and measures that will help reduce the rate cyberloafing in the organization. Methodology – Data were collected from 175 employees who have an official appointment and internet access in an organization via convenience and snowball sampling. SPSS statistics 22 was utilised to analyse the collect data. Findings – The results show that cyberloafing was related to the four proposed factors namely social norms, job characteristics, job satisfaction, and job commitment. Though only social norms and job characteristics significantly influence employees’ cyberloafing at the workplace with the the other two factors not influencing it. Practical implications – In general the discussion in this study addresses practical implications of the research work. 2017 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42075/1/BelloMuhammedAdeyinka-42075.pdf Bello, Muhammed Adeyinka (2017) Factors influencing employee’s cyberloafing in an organization. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)]
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Factors influencing employee’s cyberloafing in an organization
title Factors influencing employee’s cyberloafing in an organization
title_full Factors influencing employee’s cyberloafing in an organization
title_fullStr Factors influencing employee’s cyberloafing in an organization
title_full_unstemmed Factors influencing employee’s cyberloafing in an organization
title_short Factors influencing employee’s cyberloafing in an organization
title_sort factors influencing employee’s cyberloafing in an organization
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42075/