Cyberloafing increases or decreases task performance and productivity- a review from emerging literature

Abstract

This paper covers about cyberloafing and its predictable effects on organizational productivity. The intention of this research paper is to discuss whether employee job attitudes, organizational characteristics, attitudes towards cyberloafing and other non-Internet loafing behavior has the chance of affecting task performance of the employees. We discuss that the employee job attitudes of job involvement and intrinsic involvement are connected to cyberloafing. In addition, we discuss that organizational characteristics including the apparent cyberloafing of one’s coworkers and managerial support for internet usage are related to cyberloafing. We also arrived some conclusions from previous researches that attitudes towards cyberloafing and the extent to which employees participate in non-Internet loafing behaviors (e.g., talking with coworkers, running personal works) will both be related to cyberloafing. In addition, this paper covers a general view on cyberloafing among the organizations and their support to use the internet facility for the knowledge gained workers in a modern work environment.