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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Main Author: Gunnlaugsdottir, Johanna
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Tarleton State University 2016
Subjects:
social media
Facebook
information management
human resource management
Iceland
Online Access:http://thejsms.org/index.php/TSMRI/article/view/192
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spelling ftjsms:oai:tsmri.journals.sfu.ca:article/192 2023-05-15T16:48:52+02:00 Employee Use of Social Media for Private Affairs during Working Hours Gunnlaugsdottir, Johanna 2016-12-23 application/pdf http://thejsms.org/index.php/TSMRI/article/view/192 eng eng Tarleton State University http://thejsms.org/index.php/TSMRI/article/view/192/92 http://thejsms.org/index.php/TSMRI/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 2021-06-03T12:03:07Z 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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Facebook
information management
human resource management
Iceland
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Facebook
information management
human resource management
Iceland
Gunnlaugsdottir, Johanna
Employee Use of Social Media for Private Affairs during Working Hours
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Facebook
information management
human resource management
Iceland
description 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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author Gunnlaugsdottir, Johanna
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title Employee Use of Social Media for Private Affairs during Working Hours
title_short Employee Use of Social Media for Private Affairs during Working Hours
title_full Employee Use of Social Media for Private Affairs during Working Hours
title_fullStr Employee Use of Social Media for Private Affairs during Working Hours
title_full_unstemmed Employee Use of Social Media for Private Affairs during Working Hours
title_sort employee use of social media for private affairs during working hours
publisher Tarleton State University
publishDate 2016
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