Workplace ostracism is a situation in which employee is rejected
by his colleagues this situation could affect the performance of the
employee, also the rapid changes in the nature of work environment due
to the technological advances and the change in nature of organizations
could affect the employees’ performance. These technological changes
could benefit the organizations however some employees could use the
technological changes in a bad way. Thus this research aims to determine
the effect of cyber loafing on the relationship between workplace
ostracism and organizational citizenship behavior at private universities
in Egypt.
After reviewing previous studies in this regard, the research
problem could be summarized as follows: “To what extent does
workplace ostracism affect citizenship behavior through the effect of
cyberloafing” a model for the research hypotheses was developed, and
primary data was collected through designing a questionnaire with scales
for workplace ostracism, cyber loafing and organizational citizenship
behaviors and by using a sample of (358) units of teaching staff and
teaching assistants at private universities in Egypt.
The suggested model was tested using the structural equation
model and path analysis was used to assess the strength of the
relationships among the research variables by using (AMOS) program.
The necessary tests were conducted to assess the validity of the research
variable models. The questionnaire was distributed to the sample through
google form.
The researcher concluded that there is a negative effect of
workplace ostracism on organizational citizenship behavior. The results
also shows that workplace ostracism affects cyberloafing positively,
furthermore cyber loafing has a negative effect on organizational
citizenship behaviors which supports the third hypothesis, also
cyberloafing mediates the relationship between workplace ostracism and
organizational citizenship behavior |
