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Positive impacts of social media at work: job satisfaction, job calling, and Facebook use among co-workers

The number of Facebook users grew rapidly since its conception.Within today’s workplace, employees are increasingly connecting with each other on Facebook for interpersonal reasons.Due to sensational reports by media outlets of inappropriate social media use, many organizations are taking extreme m...

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Main Authors: Hanna, Brittany, Kee, Kerk F., Robertson, Brett W.
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2017
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HD28 Management. Industrial Management
T Technology (General)
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/20895/1/shsconf_icome2017%201%207v.pdf
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http://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20173300012
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spelling my.uum.repo.208952017-02-08T07:53:44Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/20895/ Positive impacts of social media at work: job satisfaction, job calling, and Facebook use among co-workers Hanna, Brittany Kee, Kerk F. Robertson, Brett W. HD28 Management. Industrial Management T Technology (General) The number of Facebook users grew rapidly since its conception.Within today’s workplace, employees are increasingly connecting with each other on Facebook for interpersonal reasons.Due to sensational reports by media outlets of inappropriate social media use, many organizations are taking extreme measures about how their employees who utilize Facebook to connect with colleagues.Contrary to the negative assumptions, McAfee [1] states that social media within the workplace can promote positive dynamics. The present study uses McAfee’s argument to examine if a positive connection exists between colleagues who use Facebook to connect with each other. An online survey with questions involving Facebook use with co-workers, job satisfaction, and perceived job calling was completed by employees (N=70) at two high-tech companies in Northern California, USA.Results revealed that job satisfaction is positively correlated with intensity of Facebook use among co-workers. Furthermore, feeling called to one’s line of work was statistically significantly higher for the group of employees who spent the most amount of time interacting on Facebook with their co-workers than the group that spent the least amount of time.These results suggest that companies could begin to explore the positive benefits of social media use within the workplace. 2017 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc4_by http://repo.uum.edu.my/20895/1/shsconf_icome2017%201%207v.pdf Hanna, Brittany and Kee, Kerk F. and Robertson, Brett W. (2017) Positive impacts of social media at work: job satisfaction, job calling, and Facebook use among co-workers. In: International Conference on Communication and Media: An International Communication Association Regional Conference (i-COME’16), 18th - 20th September 2016, Istana Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. http://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20173300012 doi:10.1051/shsconf/20173300012
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topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
T Technology (General)
spellingShingle HD28 Management. Industrial Management
T Technology (General)
Hanna, Brittany
Kee, Kerk F.
Robertson, Brett W.
Positive impacts of social media at work: job satisfaction, job calling, and Facebook use among co-workers
description The number of Facebook users grew rapidly since its conception.Within today’s workplace, employees are increasingly connecting with each other on Facebook for interpersonal reasons.Due to sensational reports by media outlets of inappropriate social media use, many organizations are taking extreme measures about how their employees who utilize Facebook to connect with colleagues.Contrary to the negative assumptions, McAfee [1] states that social media within the workplace can promote positive dynamics. The present study uses McAfee’s argument to examine if a positive connection exists between colleagues who use Facebook to connect with each other. An online survey with questions involving Facebook use with co-workers, job satisfaction, and perceived job calling was completed by employees (N=70) at two high-tech companies in Northern California, USA.Results revealed that job satisfaction is positively correlated with intensity of Facebook use among co-workers. Furthermore, feeling called to one’s line of work was statistically significantly higher for the group of employees who spent the most amount of time interacting on Facebook with their co-workers than the group that spent the least amount of time.These results suggest that companies could begin to explore the positive benefits of social media use within the workplace.
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author Hanna, Brittany
Kee, Kerk F.
Robertson, Brett W.
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Kee, Kerk F.
Robertson, Brett W.
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title Positive impacts of social media at work: job satisfaction, job calling, and Facebook use among co-workers
title_short Positive impacts of social media at work: job satisfaction, job calling, and Facebook use among co-workers
title_full Positive impacts of social media at work: job satisfaction, job calling, and Facebook use among co-workers
title_fullStr Positive impacts of social media at work: job satisfaction, job calling, and Facebook use among co-workers
title_full_unstemmed Positive impacts of social media at work: job satisfaction, job calling, and Facebook use among co-workers
title_sort positive impacts of social media at work: job satisfaction, job calling, and facebook use among co-workers
publishDate 2017
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