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Excessive SNS use at work, technological conflicts and employee performance: A social-cognitive-behavioral perspective

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TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
Volume 65, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101584

Keywords

Excessive SNS Use; Cognitive emotional preoccupation; Task conflict; Work performance

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [71631006]

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This study examines how excessive use of social networking sites (SNSs) affects workers' performance, finding that it leads to task, process, and relationship conflicts, ultimately decreasing work performance. Empirical testing confirmed most hypotheses of the model, except for the lack of significant correlation between relationship conflicts and work performance.
Pervasive Social Networking Site (SNS) access has deeply penetrated workers' daily life, inducing excessive usage that can lead to negative consequences. Despite the danger, few studies have examined the dark side of social media from the performance perspective of workers. This paper explores how excessive use of SNSs impacts work performance, considering the underlying mechanisms by using the cognitive-behavioral model and socialcognitive theory (SCT) as the foundations of the model. We propose that excessive usage of SNSs positively influences the cognitive emotional preoccupation and thereby leads to three types of conflicts: task conflict, process conflict, and relationship conflict (TPR conflicts). TPR conflicts, in turn, diminish the work performance. A sample of 386 Chinese SNS user responses were empirically tested to validate the proposed model, and our hypotheses were confirmed except for one: the results reveal that relationship conflict has no significant correlation to work performance. This study contributes to mitigating the destructive nature of social media by identifying its drivers and consequences, considering a comprehensive classification of SNS-related conflicts in the working environment. It also provides theoretical and important practical insights that help organizations to improve their workers' performance.

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