The usage of social media by employees should be regulated because it can reduce an organization’s productivity, increase the level of gossip and create conflicts at place workplace, reduces interpersonal relationships in a workplace and, therefore, it is likely to affect employees performance.
Annotated Bibliography
Adzovie, D. E., Isaac, E. N., & Janet, A. K. (2017). Influence of Facebook usage on employee
Productivity: A case of the University of Cape coast staff. African Journal of Business Management, 11 (7), 2-35.
The article discusses the influence of facebook usage on employee’s productivity. It highlighted that the rise of social media how organizations utilize social media to build employees in order to improve performance. It illustrated that social media has provided platform for engagement where employees can positively utilize to improve productivity. It suggests that social media usage at workplace should be regulated or control for it not to interfere with employee’s performance. It went further to illustrate that without control, it can reduce employee’s engagement which is likely to affect general organization’s performance. The authors are assistant professors of Journalism and Mass communications at the University of Cape and have written several academic journals on social media usage and its effect to marketing. However, the article is relevant to the thesis and the research since it provides detailed information on how social media affect employee’s performance, which is a major point for this research.
Aguenza, B. B., Amer, H. A.-K., & Ahmad, P. M. (2012). Social Media and Productivity in the
Workplace: Challenges and Constraints. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research in Business, 12 (5), 12-30.
The article discusses the impact of social media on productivity, challenges, and constraints, which employees undergo at work. It concludes that social media can negatively affect productivity since employees spend too much of their times on social media rather than on their daily assignments. It makes employees to leaves a lot of jobs pending and therefore, reduces the rate of job delivery which directly affects an organization performance. It affects organization’s profit and market share if not utilized appropriate. The article went further to state minority social media activities at workplace is a challenge and therefore, it can addressed effectively through policy formulation. The authors of the article are lecturers at the University Al Faisal University and hold PhD in different field of study. The authors have also published several journals on business and communication therefore; the article has weight and can be used to complete the research. The article is relevant to the thesis and can be used to complete the research since it provides detailed information on the effect of social media on employee’s productivity. It highlights the problem of social media and how it should be addressed.
Broughton, A., Tom, H., Ben, H., & Annette, C. (2010). Workplaces and Social Networking:
The Implications for Employment Relations. Institute for Employment Studies, 2-30.
The article focuses on the implication of social media to employee engagement at work. It states that social media creates a gap among employees hence reduces the level of employees’ engagement. It illustrates that employees are busy on social media charting and reading of updates instead of network and consulting on issues affecting an organization. The authors of the article are experts in the field of communication and consultants in communication and social media marketing. They have conducted several researches and made publications as well. The article is relevant to the thesis and provides detailed material which can be used to complete the research. It analysis impact of social media usage at workplace and implication which are needed to complete the research and they are also relevant to the thesis.
Ferreira, A., & Plessis, d. T. (2013). Effect of online social networking employee productivity.
Peer Reviewed Article, 4 (1), 1-30.
The article discusses the effect of social media on employees’ productivity. It argues that social media reduces productivity since it makes employees lazy and reluctant which makes several employees not to focus on the goals of an organization. It went further to state that the fact that employees spend a lot of time on social media affect productivity since assignments will not be completed on time as required and it can affect and organization negatively. The authors are experts in the field of technology and communication. Ferreira is a lecturer at the University of Johannesburg and head of Centre for Information and Knowledge Management at the same University, while Plessis is also lecturer at head of Department of Information and Knowledge Management at the University of Johannesburg. It is relevant since it highlighted the impact of social media on organization’s productivity and also provides details information how social media can be utilize effective which is needed to complete the research.
Haddud, A., John, D., & Preetinder, P. G. (2016). Exploring the Impact of Internal Social Media
Usage of Employee. Journal of Social Media for Organizations, 3 (1), 1-45.
The article discusses how social media can be used to empower employees and make good use of it for productivity. It looked at the personal effect of social media to employees’ behavior and how such behavior can affect an organization. The article presented that social media is addictive and because of that employees can easily violate cyber security hence putting an organization network infrastructure in jeopardy. It also discusses the role of social media in fostering employees’ engagement which can increase organization’s productivity. The authors are known writers and have published several journals on social media and communication techniques. Haddud has Masters in communication and technology while Preetinder has a PhD. in technology management and they have also done other publications which are being used in different fields. The article is relevant to thesis since it discusses the role of social media in foster employees’ engagement which is required to complete the research.
Leftheriotis, L., & Giannakos, M. N. (2014). Using social media for work: Losing your time or
Improving your work. The computer in Human Behavior, 12 (2), 2-38.
The article discusses how social media is used at work to meet certain expectations. It argues that social media can be used to improve organization performance through proper usage and implementation of strict policy to avoid being misused by employees. The authors are experts in social media and lecturers at Ionian University, in Greece and Norwegian University of Science and Technology respectively. It is relevant to the thesis since it highlighted both negative and positive impact of social media on employees.
Siddique, T. (2015). Use of Social Networking Sites at Workplace in Bangladesh: Employees’
Perspective. Global Disclosure of Economics and Business, 4 (2), 2-25.
The article analyzes the impact of social media usage in Bangladesh and its effect the general behavior of employees. It provides an overview of what should be done to limit the misusage of social media at a workplace. The author of the article, Siddique is an assistant professor at the Islamic University in the department of journalism and communication and therefore, he understands the impact of social media on employees. The article is relevant to the thesis because it provides detailed information about the impact of social media and what should be done to turn it into productivity.
Sidek, S. (2017). Social Media Impact on Employees Productivity at Workplace. Asia Journal of
Information technology, 6 (2), 32-38.
The article discusses how social media helps in improving productivity and impact on employees’ performance. It illustrated proper usage of social media through marketing and network to sell an organization’s goals or products is likely to increase customers’ hence high sales return. It narrated that social media can be used by an organization as the best media of communication since it is affordable and efficient and therefore, it is likely to improve an organization’s performance in the market. The author has a Ph.D. and a lecturer at the University Teknikal in Malaysia and also the head of Center for language and Human Development. It is relevant because it analyzes the impact of social media on employees’ productivity and its effects to sales return which is needed to complete the research.
References
Adzovie, D. E., Isaac, E. N., & Janet, A. K. (2017). Influence of Facebook usage on employee
productivity: A case of the University of Cape coast staff. African Journal of Business Management, 11 (7), 2-35.
Aguenza, B. B., Amer, H. A.-K., & Ahmad, P. M. (2012). Social Media and Productivity in the
Workplace: Challenges and Constraints. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research in Business, 12 (5), 12-30.
Broughton, A., Tom, H., Ben, H., & Annette, C. (2010). Workplaces and Social Networking:
The Implications for Employment Relations. Institute for Employment Studies, 2-30.
Ferreira, A., & Plessis, d. T. (2013). Effect of online social networking employee productivity.
Peer Reviewed Article, 4 (1), 1-30.
Haddud, A., John, D., & Preetinder, P. G. (2016). Exploring the Impact of Internal Social Media
Usage of Employee. Journal of Social Media for Organizations, 3 (1), 1-45.
Leftheriotis, L., & Giannakos, M. N. (2014). Using social media for work: Losing your time or
improving your work. The computer in Human Behavior, 12 (2), 2-38.
Siddique, T. (2015). Use of Social Networking Sites at Workplace in Bangladesh: Employees’
Perspective. Global Disclosure of Economics and Business, 4 (2), 2-25.
Sidek, S. (2017). Social Media Impact on Employees Productivity at Workplace. Asia Journal of
Information technology, 6 (2), 32-38.
