Research in criminology, sociology, and management, has focused on deviant behaviors with technology, termed cyber deviance. This term refers to\u00a0inappropriate or criminal behavior in a digital context\u00a0(Holt et al. 2010). Old crimes such as theft, fraud, and harassment find new forms in cyberspace and information technologies. Other crimes, such as hacking or Internet-solicited prostitution, are contested deviance, with significant subgroups labeling certain actions as nondeviant and within a reasonable moral code. Workplace deviance refers to intentional, mischievous trials to sabotage an organization by causing problems in the workplace (Agwa, 2018). Workplace deviance becomes cyber deviancy, and it provides the following opportunities;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
i) Internet sur\ufb01ng during work hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The outcomes of this misuse results in costs for the organization; misuse of valuable<\/p>\n\n\n\n
employee time which is supposed to be spent on work tasks, and related network usage<\/p>\n\n\n\n
expended in pursuit of non-work purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ii) General Internet abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This abuse includes such activities as software piracy, intellectual<\/p>\n\n\n\n
property theft through illegal hacking, or unauthorized entry into co-workers or<\/p>\n\n\n\n
supervisors’ computers, corporate databases, payroll, and \ufb01nancial records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
iii) Cyber slacking- has been de\ufb01ned by behaviors that include online gambling, stock trading,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
online romance, chat, or visiting Pornographic websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
iv) Misusing corporate email and network connectivity providing access to the internet for<\/p>\n\n\n\n
such activities as cyber aggression, where workplace email is either used intentionally for<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the expression of aggression or where emails are used by staff in such a way that it results<\/p>\n\n\n\n
in the perception of attack by a focal target (Sangh, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
v) Employees using organizational ICTs for non-work related activities such as playing<\/p>\n\n\n\n
games, doing personal banking online, updating their blogs or websites during work hours,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
frittering away organizational time using email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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References<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Singh, Y. (2020). Workplace Deviance: A Conceptual Framework. In Analyzing Workplace<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deviance in Modern Organizations (pp. 1-22). IGI Global.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ford, D., Garmsiri, M., Hancock, A., & Hickman, R. (2019). A Review and Extension of<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cyber-Deviance Literature: Why It Likely Persists. In R. Landers (Ed.), The Cambridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Handbook of Technology and Employee Behavior (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
pp. 544-579). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017\/9781108649636.021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Agwa, A. M. F. (2018). Workplace Deviance Behaviors. Leadership, 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Research in criminology, sociology, and management, has focused on deviant behaviors with technology, termed cyber deviance. This term refers to\u00a0inappropriate or criminal behavior in a digital context\u00a0(Holt et al. 2010). Old crimes such as theft, fraud, and harassment find new forms in cyberspace and information technologies. Other crimes, such as hacking or Internet-solicited prostitution, are… <\/p>\n