Abstract
Orientation: Understanding cyberloafing, organisational justice, work engagement and organisational trust will lead organisations to develop strategies to counter the consequences of cyberloafing.Research purpose: This research explored the relationships between cyberloafing, organisational justice, work engagement and organisational trust among South African office workers in the retail and manufacturing industry.Motivation for the study: Cyberloafing, a prevalent way for office employees to engage in non-work-related activities during work time, is considered harmful to organisations. Limited research exists about the relationship between cyberloafing and organisational justice, organisational trust and work engagement within South Africa.Research design, approach and method: A quantitative research design was followed. Questionnaires were administered in the South African retail and manufacturing industry; a convenient sample of N = 224 was obtained. Descriptive statistics, Cronbach’s alpha coefficients, structural equation modelling and bootstrapping were used for data analysis.Main findings: Organisational justice was positively related to organisational trust while organisational trust was positively related to work engagement; work engagement related negatively to cyberloafing. Organisational trust mediated the relationship between organisational justice and work engagement while work engagement mediated the relationship between organisational trust and cyberloafing.Practical and managerial implications: Strategies can be developed to enhance and warrant perceptions of organisational justice and fairness that will increase trust levels, leading to higher work engagement and decreased cyberloafing behaviour and resulting in higher productivity.Contribution or value-add: The research revealed that when employees perceive their organisations as being fair, organisational trust will increase, leading to heightened work engagement levels and ultimately reducing cyberloafing behaviour.
Highlights
The optimisation of employee productivity by means of technology has become an important issue for organisations (Baturay & Toker, 2015)
The results showed that the direct relationship between organisational justice and http://www.sajhrm.co.za
Organisations should not neglect employees’ perceptions of fairness and trust; they should consider interventions to decrease unfair behaviour towards employees and to build employees’ trust and engagement levels
Summary
The optimisation of employee productivity by means of technology has become an important issue for organisations (Baturay & Toker, 2015). Malhotra (2013), states that the implementation of new technology such as the Internet in organisations may lead to new types of problems. One of these is the fact that employees are provided with the opportunity to engage in a new form of counterproductive work behaviour (CWB), which is often referred to as ‘cyberloafing’ (Lim, 2002). ‘Cyberloafing’ refers to the use of company Internet during work hours to engage in non-work-related activities (Lim, 2002). The CEO of Keyscore indicated that the impact of cyberloafing on South African companies has not been http://www.sajhrm.co.za
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