Falling in Love With Work: The Effect of Enterprise Social Media on Thriving at Work

Using a survey of 300 employees in different types of enterprises and different positions, this study verified that the use of enterprise social media has a positive effect on employees’ work exuberance. The study separately examined the effects of social media applications for work tasks and social...

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Autores principales: DongXu Liu, Beigang Hou, Yuanyuan Liu, Pingqing Liu
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:a97da99108d341a391131349815bdd2b2021-11-15T06:52:08ZFalling in Love With Work: The Effect of Enterprise Social Media on Thriving at Work1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.769054https://doaj.org/article/a97da99108d341a391131349815bdd2b2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769054/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078Using a survey of 300 employees in different types of enterprises and different positions, this study verified that the use of enterprise social media has a positive effect on employees’ work exuberance. The study separately examined the effects of social media applications for work tasks and social tasks. Both types of applications had a positive impact on employees’ work exuberance. The study also identified the mediating role of challenge and obstructive stressors in this relationship. Work-related social media applications enhanced employees’ exuberance by reducing obstructive stressors, and social-related social media applications enhanced employees’ exuberance by reducing challenge stressors. The implications of these findings are that managers should pay attention to the use of enterprise social media, especially for social tasks, as this can enhance employees’ sense of exuberance.DongXu LiuBeigang HouYuanyuan LiuPingqing LiuFrontiers Media S.A.articleenterprise social mediathriving at workchallenge stressorsobstructive stressorsthe social embeddedness modelPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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topic enterprise social media
thriving at work
challenge stressors
obstructive stressors
the social embeddedness model
Psychology
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thriving at work
challenge stressors
obstructive stressors
the social embeddedness model
Psychology
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DongXu Liu
Beigang Hou
Yuanyuan Liu
Pingqing Liu
Falling in Love With Work: The Effect of Enterprise Social Media on Thriving at Work
description Using a survey of 300 employees in different types of enterprises and different positions, this study verified that the use of enterprise social media has a positive effect on employees’ work exuberance. The study separately examined the effects of social media applications for work tasks and social tasks. Both types of applications had a positive impact on employees’ work exuberance. The study also identified the mediating role of challenge and obstructive stressors in this relationship. Work-related social media applications enhanced employees’ exuberance by reducing obstructive stressors, and social-related social media applications enhanced employees’ exuberance by reducing challenge stressors. The implications of these findings are that managers should pay attention to the use of enterprise social media, especially for social tasks, as this can enhance employees’ sense of exuberance.
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author DongXu Liu
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Yuanyuan Liu
Pingqing Liu
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title Falling in Love With Work: The Effect of Enterprise Social Media on Thriving at Work
title_short Falling in Love With Work: The Effect of Enterprise Social Media on Thriving at Work
title_full Falling in Love With Work: The Effect of Enterprise Social Media on Thriving at Work
title_fullStr Falling in Love With Work: The Effect of Enterprise Social Media on Thriving at Work
title_full_unstemmed Falling in Love With Work: The Effect of Enterprise Social Media on Thriving at Work
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