Analysis of non-work related internet usage (Cyberloafing) behaviours of school principals

In today?s world, information and communication technologies are rapidly improving, besides the facileness they provide in business and education fields, they bring along some negation. As the usage of the internet increases in the business field, in many researches it is discovered that the employees tend to use it in line with their personal stuff within working hours and thus cause loss of work power. Within this context, it now appears to be a must to do such a research in the education sector since no research has been done on the internet abuse of school administration staff. In this research it is aimed to study abuses and the motives for such behaviours of education managers at charge of vocational high schools, taking their demographic properties into consideration. Accordingly, this research will centre on the rate of such abuse of school managers at charge of vocational high schools schools on the European side of Istanbul and motives for such abuse. Keywords: Non-Work Related Internet Usage, Personal Web Usage, Junk Computing, Cyberloafing