Cyberslacking
“Cyberslacking in the Work Place”
“A recent survey sponsored by the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute reported that more than one-quarter of employers have fired employees for the misuse of email, and about one-third have fired employees for misusing the Internet”, stated by the authors Ivancevich, J., Konopaske R., Matteson, M., (2011)(p.229). Chapter 8 discusses different misbehaviors in the job environment. One of those misbehaviors is cyberslacking; this term is referred to employees who surf the internet, while at work for personal reasons such as: “Viewing pornographic sites and news sites, shopping, stock trading, vacation planning, gaming, chatting, in other words, engaging in general non-business Internet activities on company time and using company resources”, stated W. Block (2001)(p.33).
Cyberslacking is becoming more common in today’s work environment because employees are starting to feel comfortable. It presents new and distinctive complications for management. Companies are noticing that there is an increased internet use; well above the time that the job requires a person to be on the internet. Now that companies are becoming more innovative, employees feel the need to slack of on their job and incorporate their personal business. Employees who can carry their phones on the job tend to cyberslack on their wireless internet. A research was done by W. Block I have personally caught my manager cyberslacking roaming Facebook instead of looking up reports. Being in a management position does not justify them from following the rules well. I constantly catch my manager on her phone roaming Facebook or looking at Pinterest, while on the clock. According to W. Black (2001), “Internet usage brings security problems as well. The more web sites visited that is not necessary, the greater the exposure to viruses”, (p. 226). Since Florida is an at-will state, they can terminate an employee for any reason as long as it is not
“A recent survey sponsored by the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute reported that more than one-quarter of employers have fired employees for the misuse of email, and about one-third have fired employees for misusing the Internet”, stated by the authors Ivancevich, J., Konopaske R., Matteson, M., (2011)(p.229). Chapter 8 discusses different misbehaviors in the job environment. One of those misbehaviors is cyberslacking; this term is referred to employees who surf the internet, while at work for personal reasons such as: “Viewing pornographic sites and news sites, shopping, stock trading, vacation planning, gaming, chatting, in other words, engaging in general non-business Internet activities on company time and using company resources”, stated W. Block (2001)(p.33).
Cyberslacking is becoming more common in today’s work environment because employees are starting to feel comfortable. It presents new and distinctive complications for management. Companies are noticing that there is an increased internet use; well above the time that the job requires a person to be on the internet. Now that companies are becoming more innovative, employees feel the need to slack of on their job and incorporate their personal business. Employees who can carry their phones on the job tend to cyberslack on their wireless internet. A research was done by W. Block I have personally caught my manager cyberslacking roaming Facebook instead of looking up reports. Being in a management position does not justify them from following the rules well. I constantly catch my manager on her phone roaming Facebook or looking at Pinterest, while on the clock. According to W. Black (2001), “Internet usage brings security problems as well. The more web sites visited that is not necessary, the greater the exposure to viruses”, (p. 226). Since Florida is an at-will state, they can terminate an employee for any reason as long as it is not
References: Block, W (2001). Cyberslacking, Business Ethics and Managerial Economics. Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 33, No. 3. retrieved 10/25/2013, from Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.famuproxy.fcla.edu/stable/25074605