Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Int J Health Care Qual Assur. 2024 Oct 17;ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print):1-23. doi: 10.1108/IJHCQA-06-2023-0044.
The main objective of this study was to understand employees engage in time theft behavior and is the behavioral consequence of this deviant behavior. To do this, the conservation of resources theory helps to examine the role of organizational cronyism behind employee time theft behavior and decreased proactive behavior.
DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: A three-wave self-administered employee survey was used for data collection. The data were collected through an adopted questionnaire from nurses working in the public sector hospitals of Pakistan. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyze data collected from 256 respondents.
The results of this three-wave study supported the hypotheses which are: (1) Organizational cronyism positively predicts employee involvement in time theft behavior. (2) Employee time theft behavior negatively impacts their proactive behavior. (3) Organizational cronyism is detrimental to employee proactive behavior. (4) The relationship between organizational cronyism and proactive behavior is mediated by time theft.
In the presence of organizational cronyism, employees use time theft as a dysfunctional coping strategy to conserve their valued resources rather than allowing the organization to consume them. Organizational leaders of public sector hospitals must promote merit-based HRM practices to discourage time theft behavior as well as to improve the proactive performances of the nurses.
ORIGINALITY/VALUE: This study is one of the initial attempts to extend the scant literature on the antecedents and consequences of time theft behavior and its dimensions in the South Asian context.
本研究的主要目的是了解员工为何会从事时间偷窃行为，以及这种偏差行为的行为后果是什么。为此，资源保存理论有助于检验组织朋党主义在员工时间偷窃行为和减少主动行为背后所扮演的角色。
设计/方法/途径：采用三波自我管理的员工调查进行数据收集。数据是通过从巴基斯坦公立医院工作的护士那里采用的问卷收集的。结构方程模型（SEM）用于分析来自 256 名受访者的数据。
这项三波研究的结果支持了以下假设：（1）组织朋党主义正向预测员工参与时间偷窃行为。（2）员工时间偷窃行为会对其主动行为产生负面影响。（3）组织朋党主义不利于员工的主动行为。（4）组织朋党主义与主动行为之间的关系是通过时间偷窃来调节的。
在存在组织朋党主义的情况下，员工会将时间偷窃作为一种不良的应对策略来保存自己有价值的资源，而不是让组织消耗它们。公立医院的组织领导者必须推行基于绩效的人力资源管理实践，以遏制时间偷窃行为，并提高护士的主动绩效。
原创性/价值：这项研究是对时间偷窃行为及其在南亚背景下的维度的前因和后果的文献进行扩展的初步尝试之一。
