The effects of abusive supervision, emotional exhaustion and organizational commitment on cyberloafing: a moderated-mediation examination
Purpose – Cyberloafing (employees’ non-work-related online activities at work) has become a common workplace problem for many organizations. Research investigating the underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions under which abusive supervision influences cyberloafing remains largely underdeveloped...
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| description | Purpose – Cyberloafing (employees’ non-work-related online activities at work) has become a common workplace problem for many organizations. Research investigating the underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions under which abusive supervision influences cyberloafing remains largely underdeveloped. Drawing from social exchange theory and conservation of resources theory, we developed a moderated-mediation model in which emotional exhaustion was theorized as a unique mechanism underlining why employees are more
likely to engage in cyberloafing under the supervision of abusive leaders. In addition, we proposed that organizational commitment to be a relevant boundary condition to influence such a relationship.
Design/methodology/approach – We collected 255 data from employees working in public listed companies in Malaysia and used partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to analyze the data.
Findings – The results showed that the influence of abusive supervision on cyberloafing through emotional
exhaustion is only significant when organizational commitment is low.
Originality/value – This study constructed a moderated-mediation model by introducing the potential mediating effect of emotional exhaustion and the moderating effect of organizational commitment to reveal the mechanism through which abusive supervision related to cyberloafing. |
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| spelling | sunway-16492021-03-22T06:53:52Z http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1649/ The effects of abusive supervision, emotional exhaustion and organizational commitment on cyberloafing: a moderated-mediation examination Lim, P. K. Koay, Kian Yeik * Chong, W. Y. HD28 Management. Industrial Management Purpose – Cyberloafing (employees’ non-work-related online activities at work) has become a common workplace problem for many organizations. Research investigating the underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions under which abusive supervision influences cyberloafing remains largely underdeveloped. Drawing from social exchange theory and conservation of resources theory, we developed a moderated-mediation model in which emotional exhaustion was theorized as a unique mechanism underlining why employees are more likely to engage in cyberloafing under the supervision of abusive leaders. In addition, we proposed that organizational commitment to be a relevant boundary condition to influence such a relationship. Design/methodology/approach – We collected 255 data from employees working in public listed companies in Malaysia and used partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to analyze the data. Findings – The results showed that the influence of abusive supervision on cyberloafing through emotional exhaustion is only significant when organizational commitment is low. Originality/value – This study constructed a moderated-mediation model by introducing the potential mediating effect of emotional exhaustion and the moderating effect of organizational commitment to reveal the mechanism through which abusive supervision related to cyberloafing. Emerald 2020-09-16 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_nc_nd_4 http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1649/1/Kian%20Yeik%20Koay%20The%20effects%20of%20abusive%20supervision%2C%20emotional%20exhaustion%20and%20organizational%20commitment%20on%20cyberloafing.pdf Lim, P. K. and Koay, Kian Yeik * and Chong, W. Y. (2020) The effects of abusive supervision, emotional exhaustion and organizational commitment on cyberloafing: a moderated-mediation examination. Internet Research, 31 (2). pp. 497-518. ISSN 1066-2243 http://doi.org/10.1108/INTR-03-2020-0165 https://doi.org/10.1108/INTR-03-2020-0165 |
| spellingShingle | HD28 Management. Industrial Management Lim, P. K. Koay, Kian Yeik * Chong, W. Y. The effects of abusive supervision, emotional exhaustion and organizational commitment on cyberloafing: a moderated-mediation examination |
| title | The effects of abusive supervision, emotional exhaustion and organizational commitment on cyberloafing: a moderated-mediation examination |
| title_full | The effects of abusive supervision, emotional exhaustion and organizational commitment on cyberloafing: a moderated-mediation examination |
| title_fullStr | The effects of abusive supervision, emotional exhaustion and organizational commitment on cyberloafing: a moderated-mediation examination |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effects of abusive supervision, emotional exhaustion and organizational commitment on cyberloafing: a moderated-mediation examination |
| title_short | The effects of abusive supervision, emotional exhaustion and organizational commitment on cyberloafing: a moderated-mediation examination |
| title_sort | effects of abusive supervision, emotional exhaustion and organizational commitment on cyberloafing: a moderated-mediation examination |
| topic | HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
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