İŞ YERİ YALNIZLIĞININ İKİ YÜZÜ: SANAL KAYTARMA VE YENİLİKÇİ İŞ PERFORMANSI

This study has been designed to primarily determine the effects of workplace loneliness on employees’ cyberloafing behaviors and innovative work performance, and thus to reveal the mediating role of cyberloafing between workplace loneliness and innovative work performance. Individuals who experience loneliness in their workplaces can devote most of their time to computer and internet use for personal purposes during working hours with the effect of developing information and communication technologies and the ease of internet access. These behaviors, which are called cyberloafing behaviors, are also associated with employees’ performance. Therefore, it is important for both managers and employees to explain the effects of workplace loneliness and cyberloafing behavior on the innovative work performance of employees, which is one of the important outcomes for businesses. The data were collected from a sample including 136 mechanical engineers and designers via the snowball sampling technique. The findings have revealed the positive effects of both workplace loneliness and cyberloafing on innovative work performance and the mediating role of cyberloafing between those variables.