Measuring procrastination at work and its associated workplace aspects

What is it about?

Workplace procrastination is evident. However, literature lacks a validated scale to address work-context specific dynamics of workplace procrastination. This study develops and validates the Procrastination at Work Scale (PAWS) and compares its psychometric characteristics across the Dutch and Turkish office employees.

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Why is it important?

This study is among the first to provide a generic scale to measure contemporary workplace procrastination. The PAWS shows a two-factor structure across two distinguished samples. Results show that procrastination behavior can be assessed by the PAWS and procrastination at work appear to be problematic behavior based on its relationship with boredom and counterproductive work behaviors. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed in the paper.