Employee deviance
The impacts of techno-insecurity and moral disengagement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21595932 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chao‐Min Chiu (0000-0003-2057-3829, National Sun Yat-sen University), Chiew Mei Tan (0000-0002-1804-6117, National Sun Yat-sen University), Jack Shih‐Chieh Hsu (0000-0002-5764-8786, National Sun Yat-sen University), Hsiang‐Lan Cheng (0000-0002-5896-1459, Ministry of Health and Welfare) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 140-164 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Information Technology and People (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-3845 • E-ISSN: 1758-5813 |
| Publisher | Emerald (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1108/itp-03-2021-0198 |
| OpenAlex | W4210776888 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 60 |
Purpose Employees may see technostress, that is, the stress experienced by individuals as a result of the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), as a threat to their jobs. In other words, employees may have a strong sense of job insecurity because of the ICT. This study aims to examine why and when employees might respond to technology-induced job insecurity (techno-insecurity) by engaging in workplace deviance – an activity that is costly for organizations. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply partial least squares structural equation modeling to test the hypotheses, using a sample of 354 valid responses. Findings The authors found that job-related technostress creators and technology-related technostress creators are positively associated with techno-insecurity. Techno-insecurity affects deviant behavior by increasing employees' moral disengagement. The authors also found that informal sanctions moderated the relationship between techno-insecurity and moral disengagement, while formal sanctions moderated the relationship between moral disengagement and deviance. Originality/value This study contributes to a better understanding of employee techno-insecurity and deviance by expanding the technostress literature and applying moral disengagement theory
Disengagement theory · Information and Communications Technology · Job insecurity · Moral disengagement · Originality · Political science · Sanctions · Structural equation modeling · Technostress · Cyberloafing and Workplace Behavior · Engineering · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology · Technostress in Professional Settings
Exploring the impact of technostress on work behaviors
Exploring social loafing in virtual reality-supported metaverse teamwork
The Hidden Cost of Unrest
Associations of work- and personal-life-related techno-stressors with emotional exhaustion, sickness absenteeism, and turnover intentions in public administration
Moral Disengagement, Machiavellianism and Academic Dishonesty
The impact of technostress on older workers seeking knowledge from younger colleagues
Discriminant validity of measures of job satisfaction, positive affectivity and negative affectivity
Why Employees Do Bad Things
Job crafting
Development of a measure of workplace deviance.
Job Insecurity
Moral disengagement in ethical decision making
Job insecurity, subjective well-being and job performance
Partial Least Squares
An empirical examination of self-reported work stress among U.S. managers.
Environmental Stress
How management style moderates the relationship between abusive supervision and workplace deviance
Abusive supervision and subordinates' organization deviance.
The Consequences of Technostress for End Users in Organizations
The Bright and Dark Sides of Technostress
Specifying Formative Constructs in Information Systems Research1
Development and validation of the job crafting scale
Deliberate or Instinctive? Proactive and Reactive Coping for Technostress
Technostress
Understanding Employee Responses to Stressful Information Security Requirements
The Impact of Technostress on Role Stress and Productivity
Interpretation of Formative Measurement in Information Systems Research1
Formative Versus Reflective Indicators in Organizational Measure Development
Marker Variable Choice, Reporting, and Interpretation in the Detection of Common Method Variance
Deviance and exit
Common method biases in behavioral research
A new criterion for assessing discriminant validity in variance-based structural equation modeling
Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
Job insecurity and work–family conflict
Technostress and the entitled employee
Technostress and its influence on employee information security policy compliance
The moderating roles of technological self-efficacy and time management in the technostress and employee performance relationship through burnout
Ensuring employees' information security policy compliance by carrot and stick
Valenced social identities and the digital divide in online health communities
Selective Moral Disengagement in the Exercise of Moral Agency
Do Deterrence Mechanisms Reduce Cyberloafing When It Is an Observed Workplace Norm? A Moderated Mediation Model
Structural equation modeling in practice
The effects of psychological contract breach and organizational cynicism
The self-importance of moral identity
Mechanisms of moral disengagement in the exercise of moral agency
Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration of Inhumanities
Technostress
Reconsidering Baron and Kenny
| Citations per year | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |