Journal
HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY
Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages 597-624Publisher
WILEY PERIODICALS, INC
DOI: 10.1002/hrdq.21432
Keywords
conscientiousness; cyberloafing; felt obligation; job stress; responsible leadership; self-regulatory resources
Funding
- Beijing Excellent Talents Training Fund [2018000020124G166]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2021QNPY49]
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This study examined the relationship between responsible leadership and employee cyberloafing, revealing the paradoxical mechanisms of self-regulatory resources anticipated from the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory. Responsible leadership reduced cyberloafing through increased felt obligation but also promoted it through job stress. Furthermore, conscientiousness was found to moderate the mediating effect of felt obligation between responsible leadership and cyberloafing.
Drawing on the conservation of resources theory (COR), this study examines the relationship between responsible leadership and counterproductive work behavior of employee cyberloafing. Incorporating related concepts of felt obligation, job stress, and conscientiousness as possible mediators and moderators between responsible leadership and cyberloafing, a field study and a quasi-experimental design were conducted on two data sets. Data from Study 1 showed that while responsible leadership reduced employee cyberloafing through increased felt obligation, it also promoted employee cyberloafing through increasing job stress. Study 2 further showed that conscientiousness moderated the mediating effect of felt obligation between responsible leadership and cyberloafing. The results from this work illustrate the paradoxical mechanisms of self-regulatory resources anticipated from COR.
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