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Title:	Relationship of job commitment, job satisfaction, and work stressors with employee cyberloafing: the moderating role of personality traits
Authors:	Hadi Farhadi (P45423)
Supervisor:	Rohany Nasir, Prof. Dr.
Keywords:	Cyberloafing Job commitment Job satisfaction Work stressors Personality traits Dissertations, Academic -- Malaysia
Issue Date:	2014
Description:	Billions of dollars were lost each year as a result of employees’ cyberloafing in the workplace. To achieve a better understanding of this problem, the first objective of the study was to investigate the individual (personality traits and demographic backgrounds) and situational (job commitment, job satisfaction, and work stressors) factors that impact cyberloafing. The second objective examined the moderating influence of personality traits on the relationship between job commitment, job satisfaction, and work stressors with cyberloafing. This study used quantitative approach. A set of questionnaires consists of 97 items were used to collect the required data as well as utilized SPSS software for the analysis. The total numbers of participants were 372, mainly working as civil servants in Malaysian organization. This study found that cyberloafing has a negative relationship with job commitment and job satisfaction and positive relationships with three components of work stressors namely, interpersonal conflict, job demands, and organizational constraint. Furthermore, the results showed that the extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional stability negatively associate with cyberloafing, while openness to experience was not correlated. However, the findings of the study highlights differences in cyberloafing between the subjects with different age groups, gender, marital status, tenure, Internet skills, and time period spent on the Internet, the study found out that it is hard to detect differences in cyberloafing among subjects with different educational levels. In terms of interaction effects, emotional stability was unable to moderate relationship of cyberloafing with job satisfaction, job commitment, interpersonal conflict, job demands, and organizational constraint. While, the results showed that extraversion did moderate the relationship between job commitment and cyberloafing. Moreover, agreeableness and conscientiousness also did moderate the relationship between job satisfaction, job commitment, and interpersonal conflict with cyberloafing. Finally, the study indicates that openness to experience, moderates the relationship between two main variables namely job commitment and job satisfaction with cyberloafing. The results of this study provide useful insights for employers, researchers and industrial organizational psychologists in understanding antecedents of cyberloafing.,Ph.D.
Pages:	218
Publisher:	UKM, Bangi
Appears in Collections:	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan

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