Why and When can CSR toward Employees Lead to Cyberloafing? The Role of Workplace Boredom and Moral Disengagement

Ohana, Marc; Murtaza, Ghulam; Haq, Inam Ul; Al-Shatti, Esraa; Zhang, Chi

doi:10.1007/s10551-023-05358-4

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“…For example, job overload diminishes cyberloafing by depriving employees of free time (Hensel and Kacprzak, 2020). In addition, research has shown that cyberloafing is a relief strategy to cope with job boredom and burnout (Ohana et al ., n.d in press; Pindek et al ., 2018). Cheng et al .…”

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Unintended influence of leader forgiveness: increased employee cyberloafing

Zhang,

Xie,

Zhang

et al. 2023

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PurposeThe substantial cost of employee cyberloafing to organizations calls for research into exploring the factors that influence such behavior. Drawing upon social cognitive theory, the authors develop a theoretical model that unpacks when and why leader forgiveness induces employee cyberloafing. Specifically, the authors identify moral disengagement as a linking mechanism and employee empathic concern as a key boundary condition in the association between leader forgiveness and employee cyberloafing behaviors.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted multilevel analyses to examine the authors' hypotheses by utilizing a sample of 71 supervisors and 306 direct reports.FindingsResults showed that leader forgiveness encouraged employee cyberloafing via moral disengagement among employees with low empathic concern, whereas the indirect effect was not present among those with high empathic concern.Originality/valueThe authors contribute to the literature on cyberloafing and leader forgiveness. First, this study extends the cyberloafing research by considering leader forgiveness as an enabler, challenging the dominant notion that positive leader behaviors (e.g. leader mindfulness) constrain employee cyberloafing while negative leader behaviors (e.g. abusive supervision) elicit it. Second, although past studies have predominantly concentrated on the positive outcomes of forgiveness, the current research contributes to the balanced and comprehensive understanding of leader forgiveness by linking leader forgiveness with employee cyberloafing.

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Unintended influence of leader forgiveness: increased employee cyberloafing

Zhang,

Xie,

Zhang

et al. 2023

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“…Similarly, Spanouli et al (2023) reported that JB is significantly linked with counterproductive workplace behaviour. Likewise, another study highlighted that employee CL and JB were found to be positively correlated (Ohana et al, 2023). Moreover, a recent meta-analysis demonstrated a substantial link between CL and low workload (Giordano & Mercado, 2023).…”

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What Role Perceived Justice Play between Job Boredom and Cyber-loafing? A Mediational Inquiry of Employees at Software Houses

Younas,

Abbas,

Qayyum

2023

JPAP

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Owning to the very nature of their work, employees working in the field of information technology (IT) have higher exposure to internet use and surfing. This is why, the phenomenon of cyberloafing is quite common among IT professionals. Taking this into account, our study proposed to investigate the interrelatedness among job boredom, perceived justice and cyberloafing in employees (N = 213) working under software developers at various software houses in Lahore. Results indicated that while job boredom increased with an increase in cyberloafing, an inverse association was observed between perceived justice and cyberloafing. Correspondingly, cyberloafing was significantly predicted by both job boredom and perceived justice. Moreover, perceived justice emerged as a partial mediator between job boredom and cyberloafing. While our findings made valuable additions to the indigenous literature, they can also facilitate counsellors and therapists working in organizational settings as well as the personnel at human resource departments to collaborate on working towards creating a conducive workplace environment that can curtail cyberloafing and boredom by increasing a sense of justice among employees.

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The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Propelling Productivity at Workplace

Mekhala

2024

Emotional Intelligence Matters

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Why and When can CSR toward Employees Lead to Cyberloafing? The Role of Workplace Boredom and Moral Disengagement

Cited by 10 publications

References 93 publications

Unintended influence of leader forgiveness: increased employee cyberloafing

Unintended influence of leader forgiveness: increased employee cyberloafing

What Role Perceived Justice Play between Job Boredom and Cyber-loafing? A Mediational Inquiry of Employees at Software Houses

The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Propelling Productivity at Workplace

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