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EFFECTS OF PERCEIVED WORKLOAD AND COWORKER LOAFING ON JOB PERFORMANCE

Performance have positive or negative consequences for the organization and thereforescholars are widely interested in investigating the individual and organizational factors that affect it.Accordingly, this paper aims to investigate the impact of perceived workload and coworker loafing onjob performance. It is proposed that the perception of workload and coworker loafing will negativelyinfluence job performance. The results showed that perceived coworker loafing is negatively associatedwith job performance. Surprisingly, the results provide no empirical evidence in support of the negativerelationship between perceived workload and job performance.

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Perceived Workload Coworker Loafing, Job Performance,

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