Date of Award
5-2013
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Legacy Department
Applied Psychology
Committee Chair/Advisor
Pury, Cynthia
Committee Member
Kowalski , Robin
Committee Member
Rosopa , Patrick
Committee Member
Taylor , Mary
Abstract
How are social networking sites, such as Facebook, affecting employees and their organizations? Social media provide a way of creating communities where employees can share their workplace experiences and insights. The literature suggests that the manner in which these communications occur is dependent on the organizational climate, specifically the organization's values of knowledge sharing and social communications. Based on findings in the preliminary study, the main study of this thesis investigates how an employee's level of organizational commitment and job involvement influence their use of social media. Correlational analyses showed that an employee's level of organizational commitment and job involvement are positively related to whether they use Facebook to talk about work. The organizational climate of rule bending was positively related to work-related Facebook use. An employee's perceptions of appropriateness of using Facebook to talk about work did not significantly moderate the expected relationships except for organizational commitment predicting work-related Facebook postings, in which the interaction is significant only at high levels of organizational commitment. Finally, the main hypothesis, that organizational commitment and job involvement would interact in their prediction of Facebook use was not supported but had significant simple slopes at low, medium, and high levels of job involvement.
Recommended Citation
Murphy, Hannah, "SOCIAL MEDIA USE AMONG EMPLOYEES: INFLUENCES OF ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE, JOB INVOLVEMENT, AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT" (2013). All Theses. 1625.
https://open.clemson.edu/all_theses/1625