Social Media Use and Job Performance in the Workplace: The Effects of Facebook and KakaoTalk Use on Job Performance in South Korea
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Media Industry Promotion Division, Korea Communications Agency, Naju 58324, Korea
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Graduate School of Information, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea
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Sustainability 2020, 12(10), 4052; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12104052
Received: 8 April 2020 / Revised: 2 May 2020 / Accepted: 5 May 2020 / Published: 15 May 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Media Influence on Consumer Behaviour)
The use of social media, such as social networking sites and instant messaging, in everyday life continues to spread, along with social media use in the workplace. This study examined how using social media like Facebook (social networking sites) and KakaoTalk (instant messaging) at work affects individual job performance. It also analyzed whether social media use has different effects on individual job performance depending on the characteristics of the given task. The results demonstrated that both Facebook and KakaoTalk had linearly positive effects on individual job performance. Moreover, task equivocality had a positive moderating effect on the relationship between KakaoTalk use and job performance. The results may have significant implications for firms reviewing their policies on employees’ social media use. Since using social media such as Facebook and KakaoTalk in the workplace improves job performance, firms may consider encouraging employees toward this practice. In particular, they may consider supporting those employees who perform tasks with high task equivocality in making use of instant messaging platforms.
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Keywords:
social media; Facebook; KakaoTalk; job performance; task characteristics
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Lee, S.Y.; Lee, S.W. Social Media Use and Job Performance in the Workplace: The Effects of Facebook and KakaoTalk Use on Job Performance in South Korea. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4052. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12104052
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Lee SY, Lee SW. Social Media Use and Job Performance in the Workplace: The Effects of Facebook and KakaoTalk Use on Job Performance in South Korea. Sustainability. 2020; 12(10):4052. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12104052
Chicago/Turabian StyleLee, Seung Y., and Sang W. Lee 2020. "Social Media Use and Job Performance in the Workplace: The Effects of Facebook and KakaoTalk Use on Job Performance in South Korea" Sustainability 12, no. 10: 4052. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12104052
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