Employee Self-Development or Cyberloafing? The Effects of Occupational Future Time Perspective on Employee’s Behaviors

Based on the socioemotional selectivity theory, this research discusses the relationship between occupational future time perspective and employee self-development, occupational future time perspective and cyberloafing, and their mechanisms. The results show that there is a dual effect of occupational future time perspective on employee’s behaviors. High occupational future time perspective can positively predict employee self-development, which can be partly mediated by the eudaimonic motive. Low OFTP negatively predicted cyberloafing, which can also be partly mediated by the hedonic motive. This study not only enriches the research of OFTP, but also provides some management enlightenments for the organization.