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A study on the Relationship between Cyberloafing Characteristic and Cognitive Dissonance

  • Chang, Hwal-Sik (Dept. of Business Administration, Pusan National University) ;
  • Jung, Dae-Hyun (Dept. of Business Administration, Pusan National University)
  • Received : 2015.08.11
  • Accepted : 2015.09.07
  • Published : 2015.09.30
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Abstract

Cyberloafing is a term used to describe the actions of employees who use their Internet access at work for personal use while pretending to do legitimate work. This research that this puts the foundation on the general deterrence theory, social control theory, and Triandis model compares the individual characteristic including the group norm, self-control, perceived value among many factors having an effect on the personal ethical decision-making besides the general principles of ethics and stipulated regulation like the severity of sanction together. It was exposed to have the effect that the severity of punishment, self control, and perceived value notes to the internet abuse action. Therefore, the education and rules of punishment which is consistent along with the theoretical thesis supporting the groping of the preparation plan that is active in the various ethic problems has to be built. It is necessary that the company devises the internet application in the appropriate range, that is the partial the affirmation feeling which and it can allow officially. According to the cognitive dissonance, since this will have to allow with the positive direction can move to the misuse action with the intention differently, it can draw a conclusion.

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