How does personality matter? Investigating the impact of big-five personality traits on cyberloafing

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Krishnan, Satish ^a   Lim, Vivien K G ^a   Teo, Thompson S H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Big Five personality traits; Cyberloafing; Objective and self reported measures

Indexed keywords

CYBERLOAFING; INTERACTION EFFECT; INTERNET ACCESS; MAIN EFFECT; OBJECTIVE AND SELF-REPORTED MEASURES; PERSONALITY TRAITS; TIME SPENT; WORKING HOURS;

HARDWARE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870964024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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