After reading about social media use and job satisfaction, reflect on how social media has become an integral part of employees personal and company’s professional lives. Within the context of the complex issues that employees and employers face, how do you think social media could or should be used to meet both employee and employer needs? This journal entry will prepare you to discuss the importance of social networks and social support for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Week 6.
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Charoensukmongkol, P. (2014, July 01). Effects of support and job demands on social media use and work outcomes. Computers in Human Behavior, 36(71), 340-349. Retrieved from http://www.looooker.com/wp-
Hargittai, E. (2003). The digital divide and what to do about it. In D. C. Jones (Eds.), New Economy Handbook (822-841). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. 2003.
Offer, S. (2014). The Costs of Thinking About Work and Family: Mental Labor, Work-Family Spillover, and Gender Inequality Among Parents in Dual-Earner Families. Sociological Forum, 29(4), 916-936. doi:10.1111/socf.12126 Available in Academic Search Premier
Noonan, M. C., & Glass, J. L. (June 01, 2012). The hard truth about telecommuting. Monthly Labor Review, 135(6), 38-45. Retrieved from http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/
TEDx Talks. (2010, May 25). TEDxDesMoines – Christian Renaud – Future of the workplace and workforce [Video file]. Retrieved fromTEDxDesMoines – Christian Renaud – Future of the Workplace and Workforce (Links to an external site.)
Thomas, K. J. (2014, January 1). Workplace technology and the creation of boundaries: The role of VHRD in a 24/7 work environment. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 16(3), 281-295.
The textbook:
Alonso-Villar, O., Del Rio, C., & Gradin, C. (2012). The extent of occupational segregation in the United States: Differences by race, ethnicity, and gender. Industrial Relations: A Journal Of Economy & Society, 51(2), 179-212. doi:10.1111/j.1468-232X.2012.
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However, social media has raised many problems that employees and employers must address. For example, social media has caused role-blurring, where workplaces’ activities coincide with personal activities (Offer, 2014). It is because people find themselves receiving calls from the organization or coworkers during their free time, making it hard to completely separate working time and personal time. Social media use has also created chaos between supervisors and employees, especially when employees participate more in social media than the organization’s tasks (Charoensukmongkol, 2014). From these problems, it is clear the employees need to communicate more with other people, while employers need more commitment from employees.
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