EMPOWERMENT LEADERSHIP AND EMPLOYEES CYBER LOAFING: THE ROLE OF BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS SATISFACTION AND POWER DISTANCE ORIENTATION

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Published: Dec 22, 2024
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Empowering Leadership Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction Cyberloafing Behavior Power Distance Orientation

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Jiali Zuo
Chinese Graduate School, Panyapiwat Institute of Management, Thailand

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Cyberloafing behavior is a new form of deviant behavior, which is hidden, widespread and harmful. Existing studies have found that cyberloafing behavior not only reduces employees’ work engagement, but also harms organizational productivity. Therefore, exploring how to reduce employees’ cyberloafing behavior has become a topic of increasing interest for theoretical scholars and management practitioners. Based on self-determination theory, this study aims to investigate the impact of empowering leadership on employees’ cyberloafing behavior as well as the mediating role of basic psychological needs satisfaction and the moderating role of power distance orientation in the above relationship. Through a three-stage questionnaire survey of 313 employees in East China, it was found that empowering leadership directly reduces employees’ cyberloafing behavior, employees’ basic psychological needs satisfaction mediates the relationship between empowering leadership and employees’ cyberloafing behavior, and that employees’ power distance orientation not only moderates the direct effect of empowering leadership on basic psychological needs satisfaction, but also moderates the indirect effect of empowering leadership on cyberloafing behavior via basic psychological needs satisfaction. This study provides several insights into various methods to control cyberloafing behavior.

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Zuo, J. (2024). EMPOWERMENT LEADERSHIP AND EMPLOYEES CYBER LOAFING: THE ROLE OF BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS SATISFACTION AND POWER DISTANCE ORIENTATION. Chinese Journal of Social Science and Management, 8(2), 1–17. retrieved from https://so01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/CJSSM/article/view/262673
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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2024): July-December 2024
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