The effect of panopticon on work engagement and cyberloafing in organisations: A field study

This study examines the impact of panopticon on work engagement and cyberloafing, the direction and level of this effect have been investigated. Survey technique was applied to collect data. In this regard, 166 employees working in Vakıfbank, Ziraat Bankası and Halkbank operating in Elazığ province were interviewed face-to-face by the researchers. SPSS 22 was used to analyze the data. First of all, correlation analysis was conducted to reveal the relationships between variables. Correlation analysis result were switched to regression analysis and the hypotheses of the research were tested with regression analysis. As a result of the regression analysis, it had been determined that negative panopticon responsibility has a significant and positive effect on cyberloafing. Employees have reached the conclusion that when they feel that they are being observed from the outside, they are disturbed and this leads them to cyberloafing. Pozitive panopticon responsibility has a significant and negative effect on cyberloafing. Employees have reached the conclusion that when they feel that they are being observed from the outside, they are feel safe and this distract from them to cyberloafing. When the relationship between the second dependent variable, job commitment and panopticon, was analysed, it was found that positive panopticon had a significant and positive effect on job commitment. It shows that as the positive panopticon perceptions of employees increase, their level of job commitment also increases. A significant and negative relationship was found between negative panopticon and work engagement. Employees have reached the conclusion that when they feel that they are being observed from the outside, they are disturbed and this leads them to reduces levels of work engagement. There is a significant and positive relationship between awareness of being watched and work engagement. This indicates that increasing the awareness of monitoring may increase the level of dedication to work. In order to investigate something you want to do, there isn't research that handles these three variables together in the domestic and foreing literature. It is thought the new introduction of panopticon and work engagement issues tor he literatüre will contribute to future studies to examine the relationship between these variables and different coded variables.