Work Ethic and Cyberloafing In State Civil Apparatus at The Office of The Ministry of Religion, Banda Aceh City

Abstract

Technological advances has been one of the biggest invention that drive the biggest changes in the world, one of which is the development of internet information technology, where the internet is the most significant change that opens the way to the information era. This study aimed to examine the relationship between work ethos and cyberloafing behavior of the State Civil Apparatus (ASN) at the Office of the Ministry of Religion, Banda Aceh City. This study used a quantitative approach with the product moment correlation method. The measuring instrument of this research was the work ethos scale proposed by Miller, Woehr, and Hudspeth (2002) and the cyberloafing scale proposed by (Lim, 2002). The total population was 1,083 civil servants of the Ministry of Religion of Banda Aceh City with a total sample of 205 people. The sampling used simple random sampling technique. The results showed a correlation coefficient of r = 0.328 with a significance level of 0.000 (p <0.05) which indicated that there was a very significant positive relationship between work ethos and cyberloafing behavior, which means the proposed hypothesis was accepted. The relationship showed that the higher the work ethos, the higher the cyberloafing behavior of the ASN of the Ministry of Religion of Banda Aceh City, on the contrary, the lower the work ethos, the lower the cyberloafing behavior of the ASN of the Ministry of Religion of Banda Aceh City. The results of the hypothesis test showed that the correlation coefficient value of r = 0.328 indicates that there was a positive relationship between work ethic and cyberloafing in the ASN of the Ministry of Religion of Banda Aceh City. However, the correlation value was inversely proportional to the assumptions that the researcher wanted to build which there was a negative relationship between work ethic and cyberloafing.