The Relationship Between Cyber Loafing And Task Performance and an Examination of General Self-Efficacy as a Mediator

Abstract

Because of the diffusion of wireless networks and mobile technologies in society
and in learning environments, studies have investigated that employees incline
to cyber loafing during their duty hours. As a result, their performance is
impeded and they could be distracted from the course. Hospitals are places
where patients are treated with extreme care and caution. Pakistan is under
developed country and moving towards knowledge-based society where, doctors
interact with each other through mobile or other network technology for
chatting and sharing information. As a result, their routine duty is adversely
affected. Hence, this research was proposed to explore the role of self-efficacy
in the relation between cyber loafing and task performance in the public sector
hospitals of Peshawar city. A threefold investigation was performed: a) to test
the association of cyber loafing and task performance, b) investigate the
influence of cyber loafing and self – efficacy, and c) to examine the mediating
role of self-efficacy between cyber loafing and task performance. One hundred
and ninety doctors and twenty-five supervisors participated in this study. Results
reveal that cyber loafing has significant relation with task performance and selfefficacy.
The results also found that self- efficacy meditates the relation between
cyber-loafing and task performance. . This might be a unique contribution of
this study and will contribute the existing literature in the context of
organizational behavior.