Employee Use of Social Media for Private Affairs during Working Hours
Many organizations have open access to social media (SM), granting employee access at work. The purpose of the study was to find out whether the respondents used SM for private reasons at work, how much time they devoted to such use, and what was the attitude of managers and the employees themselves...
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ftjsms:oai:ojs.thejsms.org:article/192 2023-11-05T03:42:54+01:00 Employee Use of Social Media for Private Affairs during Working Hours Gunnlaugsdottir, Johanna 2016-12-23 application/pdf https://thejsms.org/index.php/JSMS/article/view/192 eng eng Tarleton State University https://thejsms.org/index.php/JSMS/article/view/192/92 https://thejsms.org/index.php/JSMS/article/view/192 The Journal of Social Media in Society; Vol. 5 No. 3 (2016): The Journal of Social Media in Society; 121-150 2325-503X 2328-3599 social media Facebook information management human resource management Iceland info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article Research article, survey, interviews 2016 ftjsms 2023-10-11T13:42:10Z Many organizations have open access to social media (SM), granting employee access at work. The purpose of the study was to find out whether the respondents used SM for private reasons at work, how much time they devoted to such use, and what was the attitude of managers and the employees themselves toward such use. The study was undertaken during 2013-2014 using a questionnaire survey. Open-ended interviews added a third dimension. The main findings were that employees used a considerable part of their working hours for personal SM use. The majority felt that managers objected to such use but an even larger majority believed that such use by their own was unacceptable. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland The Journal of Social Media in Society |
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Many organizations have open access to social media (SM), granting employee access at work. The purpose of the study was to find out whether the respondents used SM for private reasons at work, how much time they devoted to such use, and what was the attitude of managers and the employees themselves toward such use. The study was undertaken during 2013-2014 using a questionnaire survey. Open-ended interviews added a third dimension. The main findings were that employees used a considerable part of their working hours for personal SM use. The majority felt that managers objected to such use but an even larger majority believed that such use by their own was unacceptable. |
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Employee Use of Social Media for Private Affairs during Working Hours |
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