Individual and Organisational Antecedents of Cyberloafing Behaviours among IT Employees in India

Abstract

This paper is built upon earlier studies and models, which explicates the antecedents of cyberloafing. It tries to verify the most developed frameworks of cyberloafing in selected Indian IT firms. The present study proposes that cyberloafing has two sets of antecedents that predict the behaviour of employees: individual antecedents (job and intrinsic involvement, job satisfaction, organisational commitment and organisational justice) and organisational antecedents (perceived cyberloafing of one’s coworker, managerial support for internet usage, non-internet loafing behaviours, favourable attitude towards cyberloafing). It is hypothesised that employees’ perception of cyberloafing is negatively related with the individual factors and is positively related with the organisational factors. As predicted, there is a negative relationship between cyberloafing and individual factors and a positive relation between cyberloafing and organisational factors. This paper adds further theoretical support to the cyberloafing research in Information Tecnnology Industry. The discussion addresses the practical implication of the study.