What Do Human Resources Managers Think About the Employee’s Internet Usage ?

Year 2014, Volume: 14 Issue: 2, 1 - 12, 29.06.2014

Mehlika Saraç Başak Çiftçioğlu

https://doi.org/10.18037/ausbd.51987

Abstract

Despite the many advantages of internet usage in organizations, in recent years misuse of internet in work place has been seen as a potentially serious problem. This topic is also interesting for Turkey, which is a developing Eurasian Country in e-revolution. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the current state of internet usage in firms from the perspective of human resource managers and to try to find out their perceptions about non-work related internet usage, their internet usage policies, methods and applications The data included in this study were obtained from 130 company which were ranked in Bursa Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s, “ 250 Top Companies in Bursa” Index. The results show that human resource managers perception’s regarding the employees non-limiting internet usage is positive, on the other hand descriptive analysis show that 77.6 percentage of the firms are using monitoring software system in order to cope with non-work related internet usage. Detailed findings and contributions have been discussed.

Keywords

Non-Work Related Internet,, Cyberslacking, Cyberloafing,, Social Media At Work, Internet Controlling

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