The relationship between workplace friendship and perceived job significance

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Title:	The relationship between workplace friendship and perceived job significance
Authors:	Mao, HY (Mao, Hsiao-Yen) Hsieh, AT (Hsieh, An-Tien) Chen, CY (Chen, Chien-Yu)
Contributors:	Dept Int Trade
Keywords:	workplace friendship perceived job significance
Date:	2012-03
Issue Date:	2013-02-22 14:12:13 (UTC+8)
Abstract:	Existing research suggests that leaders/supervisors are the major persons in work organizations to promote employee perception of job significance, which is an intrinsic motivator for employee productivity. However, the literature remains unclear on the relationship between workplace friendship and perceived job significance. Results from a survey of 290 Taiwanese employees indicated that workplace friendship enhanced perceived job significance, and such enhancement did not vary across organizational levels. Our findings suggest intrinsically motivating employees through workplace friendship, which extends extant literature on work role of leaders/supervisors in employee motivation. Further, although lower organizational levels have a disadvantage of objectively less job significance in work organizations, our findings suggest workplace friendship is an effective factor in promoting employee perception of job significance. Thus, organizations can embed the mechanism of workplace friendship into the factors of job design to promote employees' intrinsic motivation and thus job and organizational productivity.
Relation:	JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION 卷: 18 期: 2 頁數: 247-262
Appears in Collections:	[Department of International Trade 7 Graduate Institute of International Trade ] periodical articles

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