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- Title
Understanding the Wired Workplace: The Effects of Job Characteristics on Employees' Personal Online Communication at Work.
- Authors
Jian, Guowei
- Abstract
As organizations increasingly embrace Internet technologies in daily work activities, an unintended consequence is the growing personal Internet use by employees. This study examines the association between job characteristics and a particular form of personal Internet use at work, personal online communication (POC). The study analyzes data of the 2008 Networked Workers Survey sponsored by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The results demonstrate that job characteristics explain a large, significant portion of the variance of POC at work. The findings suggest that for jobs with high knowledge intensity, managing POC could be approached from a work–life balance perspective. The study also suggests that changes in work structure, job variety, and autonomy could have significant implications for managing POC activities in the wired workplace.
- Subjects
PERSONAL Internet use in the workplace; JOB descriptions; WORK design; WORK-life balance; AUTONOMY (Psychology); LABOR productivity; EMAIL; ELECTRONIC commerce; SOCIAL media; TEXT messages; TEAMS in the workplace
- Publication
Communication Research Reports, 2013, Vol 30, Issue 1, p22
- ISSN
0882-4096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/08824096.2012.746221