The effects of personality traits of employees on cyberloafing behaviour

Abstract

Cyberloafing, as the use of internet, telephone, watching television etc. for non-work purposes during working hours, is a form of counterproductive workplace behaviour. So, t he purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of personality traits of employees on cyberloafing behavior in hospitality businesses. The data used in this paper was obtained via a survey that was prepared through face-to-face interviews conducted among employees who had been working in 5 and 4-star hotels within the Kemer, Beldibi, Çamyuva, Belek, Kundu, Antalya. A total 600 surveys were distributed and 400 were completed and returned. Questionnaire for this study was developed from prior research in literature on a 5-point Likert-type which was based on nine dimensions of two different questionnaire. SPSS 22.0 statistical program was used to analyze the data that i ncludes various statistical tools such as factor analysis, correlation analysis and regression analysis. As a result of the research, 9 of the hypotheses were supported while 11 hypotheses were not supported.