خلاصة:
Entering into the third millennium and current information age, organizations andpeople are increasingly using technologies and networks. In recent decades,technological progresses have rapidly dominated the world. In this vein, theemergence of the Internet in different aspects of life is considered to be the greatestdevelopment of the 21st century. The Internet, along with technologicaladvancements in the workplace, has created new opportunities for individuals’deviational behaviours. As a result, organizations face serious challenges. Internetemergence in the workplace has created many opportunities for organizations, e.g.,increasing the velocity of communications in the organization. On the other hand,employees can use the internet for personal and non-working purposes. Onlineactivities with personal aims are called cyberloafing/ cyberslacking. Hence,cyberloafing management is highly important. In this paper, we analyse theimportance of this subject, as well as the different aspects of this phenomenon. Todo this, we discuss relevant literature and texts. We also show these aspects in anAntecedents Behaviour Consequences (ABC) model. In this model, personality, jobdemands, role conflict, organizational policies and organizational justice areconsidered as the antecedents. Cyberloafing as behaviour, productivity andexhaustion are the consequences.
ملخص الجهاز:
The annual estimated cost for organizations due to security violations, viruses, lower productivity (because of spam), identify and information theft, hacking, time wasting and nonworking usage of the Internet is over one billion dollars.
In another definition, cyberloafing means the deliberate usage of IT for nonbusiness affairs in the workplace and during defined working hours that do not need huge technological skills.
In addition to violating such standards, such employees waste valuable organizational time by using technological resources to implement their personal tasks.
A recent study by Websense (2005) indicates that, on average, employees spend six hours of their time per week using the Internet for personal aims.
Some of these terms include: personal web usage, cyberslacking and cyberloafing (as used in this study).
Definitions of cyberloafing construct Term Definition Authors "any voluntary act of employees using their companies’ Internet access during office hours to Cyberloafing Personal Web Usage surf nonwork related Web sites for nonwork purposes, and access (including receiving and sending) nonworkrelated email" "voluntary online Web behaviors during work time using any of the organization’s resources for activities outside current customary job/work requirements" "extensive personal use of the Internet at work" Lim, Teo & Loo, 2002, p.
Research indicates that a clear and transparent policy regarding the use of the Internet by employees in organizations is an effective way of controlling this phenomenon.
If this perspective is correct, one should expect a negative relationship between cyberloafing and task performance (Vitak & LaRose, 2011).