A Review Study on the Concept of Moonlighting and it’s Impact
on Growth of Organisation
Dr. Hardeep Kaur1, Ms. Kavita Saini2
1Associate Professor, Chandigarh University, Gharuan.
2Research Scholar, Chandigarh University, Gharuan.
Abstract
Human resource is considered as the important asset for any
organisation. As the economy growing and expanding itself to be in the
global competitive era, attracting and maintaining human resource is a
challenge for the business management. A large number of employees
do moonlighting nowadays. The focus of the employer must not be
banning employees from moonlighting rather than focusing on
preventing any conflict of interest.
Keywords: Moonlighting, Monetary benefits, Business
Introduction
Human resource is considered as the important asset for any organisation. As the economy
growing and expanding itself to be in the global competitive era, attracting and maintaining
human resource is a challenge for the business management. The human resource
management is coming up with new trends and techniques everyday to meet with the new
challenges of human capital. As the economy growing faster and better there is a continuous
focus on talent acquisition. HR manager focuses on attracting and retaining employees.
According to Maslow’s needs hierarchy theory, monetary benefits or compensation is the
important need of an employee as it fulfils his physiological (basic) needs. As per the Review
of Literature, Monetary benefits are considered as highly motivating compensation for an
employee, which leads to Job Satisfaction.
With the context of increasing financial benefits or income, the life style of the generations
also improved. In order to increase the financial output or earning, most of the employees
seek number of other opportunities with their current job. At the same time, an employee
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holding two jobs, one is regular and other is part timer, doing secretly that is called moon
lighting.
Moonlighting has many meanings but it is majorly related to doing a job secretly and
typically at night. It is also known as act of doing a second job without telling your current
employer. With low pay and compensation policy in India, people are opting for
moonlighting. Employees have many reasons to do moonlighting. Moonlighting could make
a noticeable difference in employee income and ultimately to the standard of living.
Moonlighting is a challenge for both employees as well as HR professionals.
Review of Literature
Semion and Adebisi (2019) studied that professional and managerial level employees of
public sectors are more engaged in moonlighting. His findings concluded that moonlighting
promoting disloyal and discontent workforce, encouraged bureaucracy, promote leisure
attitude towards job, inefficient leadership, and ineffective organisational policies. He also
recommended that government should come up with necessary checkmates to prohibit
moonlighting in public sectors.
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