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Workplace personal web usage (WPWU) is an employee’s activity in using internet for non-relatedtask during working hours. It is considered a counterproductive behavior when done excessivelybecause it can interrupt employee’s productivity, but it can increase creativity and eliminate boredomwhen used in a rational amount. The objective of this study was to prove whether perceivedorganizational injustice had influence on WPWU which affected work productivity. A total of 222respondents working in various industries were gathered through web-survey. By using multinomiallogistic regression analysis, this study found that high level use of internet for unrelated jobsbetween 2 to 4 hours a day was influenced by respondents’ perception of not getting fair treatmentand incentive for being good performer, which then caused them to perform very low completion oftasks. There were two contrasting views regarding this result; organizations considered it as deviantbehavior because it reduced employees’ performance whereas employees regarded it as just shortbreaks to get rid of stress. Hence, this finding suggested that companies should redesign its internetpolicies to accommodate “Work-Life Blend”; blending work and personal lives, as a consequence ofcultural shift in the era of globalization and new technologies. |
