scholarly journals Studying the Effects on Job Performance through Excessive Social Media Use at Work among Employees’

Author(s):  
Noorain Mohd Nordin ◽  
Nur Liyana Athira Muhalis
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 4052 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung Yeop Lee ◽  
Sang Woo Lee

The use of social media, such as social networking sites and instant messaging, in everyday life continues to spread, along with social media use in the workplace. This study examined how using social media like Facebook (social networking sites) and KakaoTalk (instant messaging) at work affects individual job performance. It also analyzed whether social media use has different effects on individual job performance depending on the characteristics of the given task. The results demonstrated that both Facebook and KakaoTalk had linearly positive effects on individual job performance. Moreover, task equivocality had a positive moderating effect on the relationship between KakaoTalk use and job performance. The results may have significant implications for firms reviewing their policies on employees’ social media use. Since using social media such as Facebook and KakaoTalk in the workplace improves job performance, firms may consider encouraging employees toward this practice. In particular, they may consider supporting those employees who perform tasks with high task equivocality in making use of instant messaging platforms.


Author(s):  
Ishak Abd Rahman ◽  
Abdullah Sanusi Othman ◽  
Marina Cruz Nelson Cruz ◽  
Azmi Aziz

Social media has become one of the media that has various advantages compared to other media. Accordingly, this study was conducted to examine the impact of social media use on employee performance among private employees. The impact of the use of social media is studied in 6 levels of literacy namely trust, sharing views, network relationships, knowledge transfer, job performance, social media experience among private employees. This survey study uses questionnaire instruments among 111 private employees in Malaysia. The results reveal that social media can encourage the formation of social capital employees represented by network relationships, share shared views and beliefs, which in turn, can facilitate knowledge transfer. Sharing views and the transfer of shared knowledge positively affects job performance. Although network relationships and trust do not have a direct impact on job performance, such influence is part of knowledge transfer. All variables of the study have a normal relationship that is the use of social media in the workplace, Beliefs, Sharing views, Network relationships, Knowledge transfer, Job performance, Social media experience. This may be due to the understanding of the respondents who provided good cooperation while responding to the survey questions honestly.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiayu Chen ◽  
Carol Xiaojuan Ou ◽  
Robert M. Davison

PurposeThis study investigates how employees' work- and social-related use of social media can individually and interactively render different impacts on employees' performance in the context of internal or external social media.Design/methodology/approachTo test the research model in these two different contexts, the authors collected data from 392 internal social media users and 302 external social media users in the workplace.FindingsThe data suggest that the respondents' job performance can be enhanced when using internal social media for work-related purposes and using external social media for social-related purposes. Meanwhile, the interaction of work- and social-related use is positive for external social media but negative for internal social media on job performance. These findings highlight the significant distinction of social media use in the workplace.Originality/valueFirst, this study contributes to the literature on the business value of IT by providing theoretical arguments on how companies can capitalize efforts to consider work-related use in combination with social-related use to create business value. Second, this research theorizes two distinct yet interacting views of social media use. The authors offer a more granular insight of the paths from work- and social-related use to employee performance instead of encapsulating social media use in a unitary concept and linking it simply and broadly to employee performance. Third, this research considers the interdependent effects of work- and social-related use on employee performance, and thus goes beyond the independent roles of these two types of social media use. Fourth, the authors find that the links from employees' work- and social-related use of social media to job performance vary in different contexts.


Author(s):  
Peerayuth Charoensukmongkol

The objective of this research is to examine the conditions that make social media use at work yield higher benefit to employee job performance. Survey data were collected from 211 employees in Thailand. Results from partial least square regression analysis show that although the intensity of social media use at work positively affects job performance, the benefit is significantly higher when (1) employees encounter high job demands, (2) social media access is allowed in the workplace, and (3) social media are accessed mostly from a personal computer instead of from mobile devices. These findings suggest some implications regarding the workplace policy on social media access during work.


2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 1091-1112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lingling Yu ◽  
Xiongfei Cao ◽  
Zhiying Liu ◽  
Junkai Wang

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of excessive social media use on individual job performance and its exact mechanism. An extended stressor–strain–outcome research model is proposed to explain how excessive social media use at work influences individual job performance.Design/methodology/approachThe research model was empirically tested with an online survey study of 230 working professionals who use social media in organizations.FindingsThe results revealed that excessive social media use was a determinant of three types of social media overload (i.e. information, communication and social overload). Information and communication overload were significant stressors that influence social media exhaustion, while social overload was not a significant predictor of exhaustion. Furthermore, social media exhaustion significantly reduces individual job performance.Originality/valueTheory-driven investigation of the effects of excessive social media use on individual job performance is still relatively scarce, underscoring the need for theoretically-based research of excessive social media use at work. This paper enriches social media research by presenting an extended stressor–strain–outcome model to explore the exact mechanism of excessive use of social media at work, and identifying three components of social media-related overload, including information, communication and social overload. It is an initial attempt to systematically validate the casual relationships among excessive usage experience, overload, exhaustion and individual job performance based on the transactional theory of stress and coping.


2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 1289-1314
Author(s):  
Xiayu Chen ◽  
Shaobo Wei

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the underlying mechanisms through which social media use for vertical and horizontal communication enhance employee performance. Design/methodology/approach To test the research model, the authors conducted a questionnaire survey in China. The authors used a customer panel database provided by a marketing research firm in China to identify appropriate respondents. Finally, the authors received 243 valid responses. Findings The authors find that social media use for vertical communication (SMUVC) is positively related to leader-member exchange (LMX) and social media use for horizontal communication (SMUHC) is positively related to team-member exchange (TMX). LMX and TMX are positively related to employee performance. LMX is positively associated with TMX. Besides, task complexity positively moderates the relationship between LMX and employee performance, while it negatively moderates the relationship between TMX and employee performance. Originality/value First, it adds to the literature by investigating the underlying mechanisms of how social media use for communication influences job performance. By identifying LMX and TMX as the underlying mechanisms, the authors make comprehensive considerations of how the vertical and horizontal relationships link the effect of social media use for communication on employee performance. Second, despite the growing evidence demonstrates that high-quality LMX and TMX can individually contribute to employee job performance, little research has considered both LMX and TMX relationships simultaneously and their effects on job performance. Finally, by establishing task complexity as a key moderator on the relationships between LMX and TMX and job performance, the study could explain the inconsistent findings in the literature that the effects of LMX and TMX are significant in some studies yet not significant in other studies.


2020 ◽  
pp. 139-153
Author(s):  
Maan Alkhateeb ◽  
Rania Abdalla

Social media has changed the modes of all aspects of business operations, particularly human resource management practices. Firms are increasingly using social media tools to facilitate information sharing among their employees in an attempt to improve the innovation process and firm performance. It is expected that using new information technologies such as social media will enable the firm to act proficiently on business opportunities and reconfigure human resources by utilizing networks to routinize the business's knowledge and innovation competencies. This study aims to examine how different purposes of social media use to influence employees' level of job performance directly or indirectly through job satisfaction as a mediator. Two purposes are identified: work-related purposes and personal purposes. A closed questions survey tool was used to gather the data from the employees of three leading organizations in the Tulkarm district. Two hundred eighty-two valid questionnaires were analyzed using SPSS and IBM SPSS Amos 24. The findings revealed that the impact of using social media for work purposes on job performance is fully mediated by job satisfaction, while social media use for personal purposes does not influence job performance directly nor indirectly. The current study enriches the available literature by examining social media use from two perspectives: work-related and personal purposes, thus added value to the available literature, particularly in the Palestinian context. Practically, managers could benefit from the work by adopting relevant strategies to guide this use in a way that motivate the employees towards achieving the goals of the organizations. Such as offering reliable internet services which may help in encouraging the employees or even attracting the ones who are not engaged yet in social media to start using it for work purposes, as for personal purposes, specific policies can be adopted to monitor this use within controls. The article recommends organizations to utilize and direct social media use for work purposes towards achieving the goals of the organizations. Keywords: communication, job satisfaction, performance, personal purposes, social media.


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