Keeping It Social

2015

Employee development is one of the key processes constituting human resources management. Due to rapid progress in technology and accessibility of the internet, a significant part of human activity is being transferred to the virtual world. One of the most popular tools used on the internet is social media. It is beyond any discussion that the role of the internet and social media in the development of employees is increasing. Social media offer clear advantages for teaching employees from new generations (like Y or Z). Attributes, such as openness, collaboration and user-generated content, combined together with social media's increasing popularity among young employees are the reasons why use of social networks in human resources development garners substantial interest among employers. The author of the paper attempts to analyze the method in which social media are used as a tool for supporting the development of young employees.

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2012

This paper presents an original approach to designing social media that support informal learning in the digital workplace. It adapts design-based research to take into account the embeddedness of interactions within digitally mediated work-based contexts. The approach is demonstrated through the design, implementation, and evaluation of software tools supporting a particular type of informal learning called knowledge maturing. The paper: introduces and presents the rationale for, and concept of, knowledge maturing; ...

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Integrating Social Media into Business Practice, Applications, Management, and Models, 2014

2013

Today, individuals communicate easier and faster due to accessibility of the Internet. However, when employees are distracted with social media, it can become a concern for organizations. This paper reviews literature concerning social media and its implications at workplaces, and provides recommendations to control it, using Adams’ equity theory (1963). Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life. (Clinton, 2000, para. 1) The arrival of communication in the form of social media has connected individuals throughout the world together (Bennett, 2010). Social media can be defined as where people communicate, utilizing online platforms while they are connected to the Internet (Cox & Rethman, 2011). With social media, people interact not only with a single person, but they can choose to connect with many other individuals to sp...

Library and Information Association of Zambia (LIAZ) Journal, 2018, 3 (1 & 2): 100 – 111

The importance and use of social media in the workplace has greatly increased and therefore cannot be ignored in today's information age. Despite the increase in social media usage today, efforts made in understanding the use of these tools in workplaces is still limited especially in developing countries. Very little is known on the ways in which employees and employers in the workplace use social media for it has great influence on work dynamics and can cause problems if left unregulated. Thus, this study sought to investigate how social media is being used in the workplace by both employers and employees, the mostly used public social media in the workplace, the opportunities as well as the challenges that social media presents in the workplace. The focus was on public social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, which are run by commercial providers and are often free. The study involved a survey of literature from both online (mostly on general google and google scholar) and offline materials related to the topic. The findings of the study revealed that organisations and their employees use different kinds of social media tools and services in the workplace. Employers mainly use it in recruitment, collective bargaining and to make visible their products and services and reach out to millions of customers. Employees use social media to operate and communicate on job related issues in a fast and easier way than before resulting in improved productivity, increased efficiency, increased marketing opportunities among other opportunities. On the other hand, the study revealed that social media is misused for non-work related activities by employees such as checking on sport scores, family and friends, downloading music and video, fraud, information leakage, reputation damage, discrimination and many more resulting in decreased productivity. Based on these findings, the paper recommends that organisations should monitor the usage to ensure that employees use social media sites productively and to the interest of the organisation. Employers should also formulate appropriate workplace policies to guide employees on how to use social media for job purposes.

Economics ecology socium, 2019

Introduction. Social media steadily and constantly envelops all aspects of peoples' lives. Thus it is of crucial importance to investigate and measure social media activities' impact on their inclusion in the formation of today’s and future societies as more and more online activities have been incorporated in real life personal and professional activities. Aim and tasks. This article explores the new trends in people’s activities at the workplace and outlines the main concerns regarding keeping the line between personal and professional online activities. Results. Social media are now an integral part of the everyday life of modern man. Since a person spends most of their day at work or in pursuit of their profession, they also seek to engage in personal activities within the working day (talking on the phone with family or friends, shopping online, reading news etc.). A user is created with features specific to the internet generation. This new type of user has specific fe...