Social media at workplace : A case study of employees' productivity at Ranaco Marine Sdn Bhd / Nurul Ainsyah Mamat

There was considerable debate among academics and business practitioners on the value of social media usage in the workplace. Some claimed that their use in the workplace was a waste of time while others believe it leads to improvements of employees' productivity. The purpose of this study w...

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Main Author: Mamat, Nurul Ainsyah
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Business and Management 2018
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/21852/1/PPb_NURUL%20AINSYAH%20MAMAT%20OM%20C%2018_5.PDF
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description There was considerable debate among academics and business practitioners on the value of social media usage in the workplace. Some claimed that their use in the workplace was a waste of time while others believe it leads to improvements of employees' productivity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the usage of social media in workplace towards employees' productivity. The independent variables that were used in this study were intrinsic motivation, communication channel, knowledge sharing and intention to use while the dependent variable was employees' productivity. A sample was randomly selected from a population in RANACO MARINE SDN BHD. Statistical analysis and Pearson's correlation was undertaken to ascertain the degree of relationship between the variables. Primary data was collected by use of a questionnaire. The research found both weak and strong positive relationship between the usage of social media at work place and employee productivity.
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spelling uitm.eprints-18522018-11-05T07:00:25Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/21852/ Social media at workplace : A case study of employees' productivity at Ranaco Marine Sdn Bhd / Nurul Ainsyah Mamat Mamat, Nurul Ainsyah Personnel management. Employment management Employee motivation Performance standards There was considerable debate among academics and business practitioners on the value of social media usage in the workplace. Some claimed that their use in the workplace was a waste of time while others believe it leads to improvements of employees' productivity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the usage of social media in workplace towards employees' productivity. The independent variables that were used in this study were intrinsic motivation, communication channel, knowledge sharing and intention to use while the dependent variable was employees' productivity. A sample was randomly selected from a population in RANACO MARINE SDN BHD. Statistical analysis and Pearson's correlation was undertaken to ascertain the degree of relationship between the variables. Primary data was collected by use of a questionnaire. The research found both weak and strong positive relationship between the usage of social media at work place and employee productivity. Faculty of Business and Management 2018 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/21852/1/PPb_NURUL%20AINSYAH%20MAMAT%20OM%20C%2018_5.PDF Social media at workplace : A case study of employees' productivity at Ranaco Marine Sdn Bhd / Nurul Ainsyah Mamat. (2018) [Student Project] <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/21852.pdf> (Unpublished)
spellingShingle Personnel management. Employment management
Employee motivation
Performance standards
Mamat, Nurul Ainsyah
Social media at workplace : A case study of employees' productivity at Ranaco Marine Sdn Bhd / Nurul Ainsyah Mamat
title Social media at workplace : A case study of employees' productivity at Ranaco Marine Sdn Bhd / Nurul Ainsyah Mamat
title_full Social media at workplace : A case study of employees' productivity at Ranaco Marine Sdn Bhd / Nurul Ainsyah Mamat
title_fullStr Social media at workplace : A case study of employees' productivity at Ranaco Marine Sdn Bhd / Nurul Ainsyah Mamat
title_full_unstemmed Social media at workplace : A case study of employees' productivity at Ranaco Marine Sdn Bhd / Nurul Ainsyah Mamat
title_short Social media at workplace : A case study of employees' productivity at Ranaco Marine Sdn Bhd / Nurul Ainsyah Mamat
title_sort social media at workplace a case study of employees productivity at ranaco marine sdn bhd nurul ainsyah mamat
topic Personnel management. Employment management
Employee motivation
Performance standards
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/21852/1/PPb_NURUL%20AINSYAH%20MAMAT%20OM%20C%2018_5.PDF
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