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Manager’s Lived Experience in Cyberloafing within Business Organizations

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  • Shaun Alexander Spath I

    (Dissertation Faculty, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, Arizona USA 85017)

  • Edward Felix Vengrouskie

    (Management Instructor, Department of Management, The Robbins College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Ft Hays, Kansas USA 67601)

Abstract

This qualitative descriptive phenomenological study explored how business managers describe their lived experiences as a cyberloafer in the Southern United States. There were eight participants that supervised at least five employees, older than 24 years of age, and had a history of cyberloafing that shared their firsthand experience in a 60– 90-minute semi-structured interviews. The framework used Triandis’ 1977 theory of interpersonal behavior tri-level cognitive model. Eidetic analysis used Giorgi’s five- step descriptive phenomenological approach. The data discovered five general structures of business managers cyberloafing: 1) work-life balance, 2) social norms with internet usage, 3) habits within the organization, 4) productivity, and 5) preventative measures. The findings of this study can build on business management to reduce company cost while promoting positive cyberloafing to creative innovative workplace behaviors, increasing sustainability.

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  • Shaun Alexander Spath I & Edward Felix Vengrouskie, 2022. "Manager’s Lived Experience in Cyberloafing within Business Organizations," International Journal of Management Science and Business Administration, Inovatus Services Ltd., vol. 8(3), pages 15-23, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:mgs:ijmsba:v:8:y:2022:i:3:p:15-23
    DOI: 10.18775/ijmsba.1849-5664-5419.2014.83.1002
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    1. Kian Yeik Koay & Patrick Chin-Hooi Soh & Kok Wai Chew, 2017. "Do employees’ private demands lead to cyberloafing? The mediating role of job stress," Management Research Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 40(9), pages 1025-1038, September.
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    Keywords

    Cyberloafing; Internet; Business Management; Triandis’ Theory of Interpersonal Behavior; Giorgi’s Five-Step Descriptive Phenomenological Approach;
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    JEL classification:

    • M00 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - General - - - General

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