Impact of organizational and personal factors on level of procrastination in employees of modern organization

Abstract

Article devoted to the analysis of personal, professional and organizational factors’ influence on level of procrastination in employees of modern Russian industrial organization. It was found that level of procrastination in employees determines special aspects of typical behavior patterns in occupational situation, subjective appraisal of job difficulties, personality and behavioral deteriorations and special aspects of organizational culture. The results of regression analysis revealed significant personal, professional and organizational predictors of procrastination in modern employees: outgoing (sociability), innovativeness, detail conscious and conscientious. Besides, work environment characteristics such as content and importance of job tasks are significant predictors of procrastination too. Personality and behavioral deteriorations (anxiety and depressive syndrome), adaptive collaborative process, social desirability make a contribution to regression model predictiveness.

Взаимосвязь Временных Перспектив И Прокрастинации У Сотрудников Разного Должностного Статуса

“…In our work, we rely on the definition of procrastination by Barabanshchikova and Kaminskaya's (2013) who understood it as a psychological strategy of specialists' postponing the performance of prescribed duties. In addition, Barabanshchikova Barabanschikova & Ivanova, 2016) shows that procrastination has negative and positive consequences for a person's activities. A separate type of procrastination identified by Varvaricheva (2010) is conscious procrastination.…”