1st Edition

Cyberloafing in Organizations Workplace Dynamics and Employee Outcomes

By Jolanta Babiak, Beata Bajcar Copyright 2027
190 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines cyberloafing: employees’ use of internet-enabled technologies for personal purposes during paid working time. It addresses a familiar but often misunderstood feature of contemporary work: checking messages, browsing news, using social media, shopping online, or engaging in other non-work digital activity while at work. Rather than treating cyberloafing simply as wasted time or... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1. Cyberloafing: Conceptual Boundaries

Chapter 2. Individual and Work-Related Antecedents of Cyberloafing

Chapter 3. Cyberloafing, Stress, and Coping

Chapter 4. Performance Consequences of Cyberloafing

Chapter 5. Measuring Cyberloafing

Chapter 6. Cyberloafing In Cross-Cultural Contexts

Chapter 7. Psychological and Contextual Antecedents, Mechanisms, and Outcomes of Cyberloafing at Work

Chapter 8. General Conclusions

Chapter 9. Implications for Organizational Practice

Final Remarks

Biography

Jolanta Babiak, PhD, is an assistant professor in psychology and organizational psychology at Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland. Her research focuses on leadership, organizational behavior, digital workplace behavior, and individual differences in work settings. She has published on cyberloafing, cyberchondria, leadership styles, personality, and psychometric scale development. Before entering academia, she held managerial roles in commercial real estate and the non-profit sector, which shaped her applied interest in employee behavior, well-being, and organizational functioning.

Beata Bajcar is an Associate Professor at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, working at the Faculty of Management, Department of Psychology and Ergonomics. Her research interests include the human – technology interaction, causes and consequences of dysfunctional work and organizational behavior, and cyberdeviance, such as cyberloafing and cyberchondria. She has also researched psychological aspects of AI, especially AI overload and social influence and their determinants and consequences. In addition, she specializes in the development and validation of standardized questionnaires to measure leadership styles, strategic thinking, professional interests, work values, cyberloafing, cyberchondria, and temporal orientation.