Relationship between Organizational Justice and Cyberloafing in the Workplace: Has “Anomia” a Say in the Matter?

Abstract

Anomia describes the individual's lack of integration in social life. This study examines the moderating role of work anomia (WA) in the relationship between employees' perceptions of organizational justice (OJ) and workplace Internet misuse (or cyberloafing). The model suggests that WA interacts with that link by tightening their theoretic negative association. Data were collected from 270 (17.46%) of the 1,547 teachers of a Spanish university by Internet e-mail. Multiple hierarchical regression results support that WA acts as a moderator of the OJ-cyberloafing link because the perceptions of three types of OJ (distributive, procedural, and interactional) among employees with low, as compared to high anomia, have a stronger negative relationship with cyberloafing. The findings contribute to a better understanding of the OJ-cyberloafing link, and favor the control of cyberloafing through WA.

Teachers’ personal web use at work

“…While performing 'functional' PWU such as shopping or arranging insurance may be interpreted as resistance, as re-appropriation of time, searching for jobs or holidays online provides cognitive escape and a means of coping with the present demands of the workplace. Yet PWU may not just provide a means of coping with work intensification; it may also be a means of coping with 'workplace anomia' (Zoghbi-Manrique de Lara, 2007), alienation experienced at work as a result of increasing individualisation in the education workplace that has eroded solidarity (Ball, 2003). This issue is further exacerbated by the extent to which the teachers in this study worked at home.…”

The effects of personality traits of employees on cyberloafing behaviour

“…İnternet, telefon, televizyon gibi çeşitli araçların çalışma yaşamında iş amaçlı ya da bireysel amaçlarla kullanımı örgütsel düzeyde birtakım tartışmaları da beraberinde getirebilmektedir. Bir grup araştırmacı iletişim teknolojilerinin bireylerin gelişim ve öğrenmesine katkı sağladığı düşüncesiyle çalışma yaşamında kısıtlanmaması gerektiğini savunurken bir grup araştırmacı karşı görüşü savunarak teknoloji temelli iletişim araçlarının bireylerin iş performansı ve örgütsel ilişkilerini olumsuz etkilediğini öne sürmektedir (Blanchard ve Henle, 2008;Demir ve Demir, 2009;Liberman, Seidman, Mckenna ve Buffardi, 2011;De Lara, 2007).…”

Anomia and Displacement of Responsibility as Determinants of Tourist Company Managers’ Non-Involvement in Alleviating Poverty

“…Specifically, regarding the employees' behavior, Henle [42] and Henle et al [43] investigated topics similar to anomic feelings in employees, such as low morale, damaged self-esteem, and growing fear and insecurity at work. Finally, Zoghbi-Manrique-de-Lara [44,45], Zoghbi-Manrique-de-Lara and Melián-González [46], and Zoghbi-Manrique-de-Lara and Sánchez-Medina [38] recently studied anomia among employees, focusing on its capacity to interact with the links between organizational justice, job satisfaction, civic behaviors, Internet abuse, and work absence.…”