RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CYBERLOAFING AND WORK PERFORMANCE: COMPARISON OF HEALTH AND TEXTILE INDUSTRY WORKERS

The primary aim of this study is to analyse the impact of the possible effects of cyberloafing behaviours of textiles and health sector employees based in Istanbul on their job performances. The secondary aim of this study is to identify whether there are differences in terms of demographic variables among the two different sector employees’ cyberloafing behaviours and their level of job performances. The results of the data analysis show that there is a negative and significant relation between cyberloafing behaviours of health sector employees and their individual job performances. According to the results of the regression analysis, a positive and significant relation was found among the cyberloafing behaviours of textile sector employees and their individual job performances. It is also observed that the cyberloafing behaviour is able to explain 3.2 % of individual job performance along with a rather low level of impact. According to the results of the independent sample t test, there is a significant variance among the health sector and textile sector employees in terms of serious cyberloafing behaviour. The levels of serious cyberloafing of health sector employees are found to be lower than the textile sector employees. Based on the analysis of the demographic variables, and in terms of level of education, it is found that the serious cyberloafing behaviour of health sector employees who are postgraduates is lower than high school graduates and university graduates; whereas the serious cyberloafing behaviour of textile sector employees who are postgraduates shows more frequency compared to high school graduates and university graduates.