Coping with interest incongruence: the joint roles of proactive personality and job crafting
基于资源保存理论，研究兴趣不匹配如何导致员工网络闲逛，发现主动型人格和以兴趣为导向的工作重塑能缓解这种负面影响，对组织管理有实践启示。
Purpose Drawing on the conservation of resources (COR) theory, we propose a mediated moderation showing how proactive personality (PP) and job crafting toward interests (JC-interests) influence the relationship between interest incongruence and cyberloafing. Design/methodology/approach We used a three-wave survey and collected data from 429 full-time employees working in different industries in China. Findings We found that interest incongruence was positively related to cyberloafing. Furthermore, this positive relationship was more significant when employees were low in PP or engaged in low levels of JC-interests. In addition, the moderating effect of PP was mediated by JC-interests. Practical implications These findings are helpful for organizations in figuring out how to mitigate the detrimental effects of interest incongruence by providing more support to proactive employees and implementing various JC interventions. Originality/value This study suggests that PP and JC-interests (resource gain strategy) could mitigate the positive effect of interest incongruence on employees’ cyberloafing.