CYBERLOAFING PHENOMENON IN ORGANIZATIONS: DETERMINANTS AND IMPACTS

Abstract

Cyberloafing which means voluntary acts of employees using their companies’ Internet access and IT equipments for non-work-related purposes during working time, emerges as an increasingly important issue which needs to be managed in organizations. Although there are some growing body of literature which tries to provide understanding regarding this subject and discuss negative impacts of cyberloafing phenomenon in organizations; this is a quite a new subject for Turkish literature. Nevertheless, considering the impacts of cyberslacking on organizations, it is clear that there is a need for new studies which would be quite useful in terms of organizations. This study examines first the cyberloafing phenomenon and then tries to explain the determinants of cyberloafing in organizations and analyzes its positive and negative impacts for organizations as well as the controlling measures

Keywords

• Cyberslacking, cyberloafing, non-work related computing, antecedents of cyberloafing, organizational outcomes

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