The Influence of Self-Esteem and Locus of Control on Perceived Email Overload

As email use becomes more ubiquitous in organisations, negative effects that stem from its use are becoming more prevalent. This study considers Email Overload as a negative product of email use. It explores the link between the personality traits of Self-esteem and Locus of Control and Email Overload. Furthermore it proposes a link between the level of perceived Email Overload and individual productivity in the work place. A sample of 239 respondents from an engineering organisation was collected for this study. Using Partial Least Squares (PLS) results suggest a strong negative relationship between Email Overload and productivity, indicating that as perceived Email Overload increases, a person’s productivity decreases. Weaker links were formed with Self-esteem and Locus of Control to Email Overload

Antecedents for Cyberloafing – A Literature Review

The private use of the Internet via desktop and smartphones during working time, also known as cyberloafing, has become a common practice at many workplaces. While critical voices expect performance losses through such behavior, their opponents perceive of the interruptions created by cyberloafing as an opportunity to recover and continue working with increased productivity afterwards. Given the growing body of research on Internet-related employees’ opportunism, this paper presents a systematic literature review of 69 studies to identify the factors behind cyberloafing. The classification includes personality traits as well as antecedents related to the job, organization and personal life. The paper concludes with a clear picture of the kind of circumstances which tend to increase cyberloafing and which factors statistically do not seem to have any impact on the abuse of Internet during working time

Decision-making executive function profile and performance in older adults with major depression:a case-control study

OBJECTIVES: Decision making (DM) is a component of executive functioning, essential for choosing appropriate decisions. Executive dysfunctioning is particularly common in late-life depression, however the literature is scarce on DM. This case-control study aimed to evaluate the DM profile and performance in participants with and without unipolar major depression. METHOD: The DM profile and performance were assessed by the Melbourne Decision Making Questionnaire and the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), respectively, in three groups of older adults from a university-based geriatric psychiatry clinic, i.e. current depression (n = 30), remitted depression (n = 43) and healthy controls (n = 59). The Hamilton Depression scale (HAM-D) 21 items, the Hamilton Anxiety scale, and the Mini-Mental State Examination were used to access depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and cognitive impairment, respectively. Multinomial, nominal and binary logistic regression was used to evaluate the associations between depression, depressive symptomatology and DM. RESULTS: In comparison to the control group, patients with current depression presented higher scores in buck-passing and proscratination DM profiles. In the hypervigilance profile, there was a significant difference between current and remitted depression groups. A higher value ​in the HAM-D scale increased the probability of disadvantageous DM profiles. Depressive patients showed a tendency of a higher mean score in both disadvantageous decks (A and B) of IGT. Patients with current depression showed a worse performance compared to the remitted depression group in the IGT netscore. CONCLUSION: Older adults with current depression showed DM profiles considered maladaptive or disadvantageous compared to both remitted depression and healthy controls groups

Social Media and Employee Productivity at Workplace

This study makes theoretical contributions related to social media usage in the workplace. Participants who showed high work performance used social media to help communicate with their colleagues. People showed high work performance were also the ones escaping from an unsatisfying job for a while and escaping from a demanding job for a while by using social media in the workplace. High frequency of using social media in the workplace resulted in increased work performance.  Keywords: Social media, work performance, and uses and gratifications. JEL Classifications: D83, L25 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/irmm.1080

PENGARUH IKLIM ORGANISASI TERHADAP PERILAKU CYBERLOAFING PADA KARYAWAN PT X : EFFECT OF ORGANIZATION CLIMATE ON CYBERLOAFING BEHAVIOR IN EMPLOYEES OF PT X

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh iklim organisasi terhadap perilaku cyberloafing karyawan di perusahaan. Metode pengambilan data yang digunakan adalah teknik incidental sampling dan jumlah subjek penelitian ini adalah 81 karyawan yang bekerja menggunakan fasilitas komputer dengan internet perusahaan PT X. Data penelitian ini diungkap dari skala perilaku cyberloafing yang disusun oleh peneliti berdasarkan teori Lim & Teo (rxx’ = 0,840) dan skala iklim organisasi yang disusun oleh penelitian berdasarkan teori Stringer (rxx’ = 0,910). Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis regresi. Hasil analisis data menunjukkan bahwa ada pengaruh iklim organisasi terhadap frekuensi perilaku cyberloafing dengan nilai p = 0.019 (p < 0.05) dan koefisien determinan (R- square/ R^2) sebesar 0.147 (14.7%)

The influence of cyberloafing to generation z’s productivity: looking at role of creativity as mediating factor

In today's digital era, students are very close to the internet. Today's students are students of the z generation, students who are not free from the internet. They access the internet using gadgets that they can carry anywhere and can access the internet wherever they want, this results in cyberloafing. Cyberloafing is the behavior of using the internet in a learning environment for personal interests that are not related to assignments at school. This can affect the productivity and creativity of students, so this study was conducted with the aim to examine the effect of cyberloafing on productivity, cyberloafing on creativity and creativity on productivity. This type of research is a type of quantitative research using statistical calculations with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis methods. Using a purposive sampling method, by looking for respondents who meet criteria such as students with a generation of z and also open gadgets to open things that have nothing to do with learning during lecture hours. The results of this study state that cyberloafing has a significant effect on productivity with a probability value of 0.009 <0.05, then cyberloafing has a significant effect on creativity with a probability value of 0.026 <0.05, then creativity also has a significant effect on productivity with its probability value as big as *** or the value is less than 0.001 <0.05 and in this study also gets the results that creativity can mediate the influence of cyberloafing on productivity in student generation z with a coefficient of 0.027. Based on the results of these studies it can be concluded that there is a significant influence between cyberloafing on productivity, cyberloafing on creativity and creativity on productivity and creativity can mediate the influence of cyberloafing on productivity in student generation z.

Comparing Smartphone Addiction: The Prevalence, Predictors, and Negative Consequences in Hong Kong and Mainland China

This study aimed to identify common and specific factors related to smartphone addiction by systematically comparing the prevalence, predictors, and improper behavioral outcomes of smartphone addiction among university students in two cities. Data were randomly gathered from 661 university students, of which 351 were in Hong Kong and 310 were in Guangzhou in mainland China. The findings indicated that there was no significant difference in the prevalence of smartphone addiction between the two samples. In addition, the comparison of the predictors of smartphone addiction showed similar significant psychological traits (procrastination and urgency) in both regions. The findings also indicated that smartphone addiction might be associated with distinct habits of media use. Entertainment and information seeking behaviors were the unique significant predictors among the Hong Kong students, whereas social interaction was an extremely robust factor among the Guangzhou students. At last, in comparing the predictors of improper use of smartphone, addiction symptoms (craving and complaints) and utility assisting use of smartphone were significant factors for students in both regions

Exploring the theoretical link between characteristics in a job and cyberloafing using job demands-resources theory

Scholarly interest in cyber loafing, defined as using the Internet during working hours for non-work related purposes, has been gaining momentum over the years. In this paper, we seek to propose how the characteristics in a job may influence cyber loafing at work. Using job demands and resources theory to underpin our proposal, we suggest that job demands increase the tendency of employees to engage in cyber loafing due to the stress experienced at work. On the other hand, job resources tend to enhance employees’ work engagement and hence reduce their likelihood to cyber loafing

Do human resource management practices matter in reducing cyberloafing at work: Evidence from Jordan

Misusing the Internet at work for non-work related purposes or cyberloafing has become a worrisome phenomenon in organizations.As such, ways to address the issue have received increasing attention by researchers and scholars alike.The present study attempts to add to the literature by exploring the role of human resource practices (HRP) in influencing and hence reducing cyberloafing at work.Two-hundred eighty four employees in four different Jordanian universities were selected to respond to a structured questionnaire.Multiple regressions indicated that out of four types of HRP (performance appraisal, compensation practices, employment security, and career advancement) only performance appraisal and career advancement were found to negatively predict cyberloafing.No significant observations were found on the effect of compensation and employment security on cyberloafing.Implications to practice and theory are discussed

Language use in emails during Covid-19 pandemic in the context of higher educational relations

Language used in emails is unique, diverse with no fixed format or fixed set of words to writing an email. Depending on situations, the purpose of communications and individuals' preference, language use would vary in different sets of email genres. Thus, this study attempted (1) to analyse the language structure use in emails between international institutions during COVID-19 pandemic crisis, and (2) to investigate the pattern of the language used in emails between the international institutions during COVID-19 pandemic crisis. This study utilized the qualitative case study design. The emails collected for the data analysis were attained from only one rich informant that exchanges emails daily with international institutions as their management tasks. 24 emails were selected for a comprehensive analysis of the language used based on two themes which are language structure and language pattern adopted from AlAfnan (2017). The results from this study showed that (1) there are 3 types of intertextuality or language structures employed by writers in the emails. Referential intertextuality was the most used language structure followed by functional intertextuality. Both of these structures were commonly found in the hybrid genre emails in this study. The Generic Intertextuality analysis reported that over half of the emails used the same generic structures which are the framing and content moves in forming their emails. Interestingly, quite several emails omit the compulsory framing moves of “signature”. Moreover, this study revealed that (2) informing genre (29.2%) is the most used genre followed by delivery email (8.3%) and enquiry email (8.3%). Taking into note, these three (informing + delivery, informing + enquiry and delivery + enquiry genres) are the hybrid genres detected. Writers employ both written and spoken language features with some non-verbal cues to help them delivered their messages while maintaining healthy partnerships. Thus, the variety of language structure and language patterns give awareness and guidelines to whoever wants to write an email and that writers are free to choose their writing style. The significance, limitations and implications of the study were also discussed in the study. Lastly, recommendations were suggested to widen the context of the study of language use in emails especially in the context of international relations and in different types of crises