Investigating the relationship between workplace conflict and employee agility: The role of enterprise social media

The current research aims to investigate the relationship between workplace conflict and employee agility in firms that adopt enterprise social media (ESM). Using the information processing perspective, this study proposes a model for examining how task conflict and relationship conflict relate to employee agility and how ESM moderates these relationships. The regression analysis results are based on 161 respondents who adopted ESM in the workplace, and are used to examine the impact of task and relationship conflict on employee agility. The results show that relationship conflict has a U-shaped curvilinear relationship with employee agility. Conversely, the association between task conflict and employee agility is has an inverted U-shaped relationship. Moreover, the link between task conflict and employee agility is moderated by ESM usage, such that the curvilinear relationship is weakened by ESM usage. This study contributes to extant ESM literature by investigating workplace conflict and its role in developing employee agility in ESM environments. The findings indicate that managers should implement appropriate strategies to maintain a certain level of conflict in order to facilitate and achieve employee agility.     

Does enterprise social media usage make the employee more productive? A meta-analysis

In recent years, with the ability to facilitate knowledge sharing, information exchange, and work collaboration, enterprise social media (ESM) has been widely embraced by business leaders to improve job performance. However, with the deepening of empirical research and practice, ESM usage has also been found to yield various negative outcomes, such as information overload, privacy invasion, turnover intention, and work-life conflict. Ultimately, these negative outcomes will be reflected in a decline in job performance. Given this inconsistent result, this study presents a meta-analysis of the relations between ESM usage and job performance as described in previous empirical literature. The results indicate that there is a significant positive correlation between ESM usage and job performance, subject to several moderators. Specifically, different types of job performance have a moderating effect on the relations between ESM usage and job performance, and the effect of innovation performance and agility performance is greater than that of in-role performance. Samples with a high proportion of females showed stronger effects of ESM usage on job performance, whereas samples with a high proportion of managers showed stronger effects. Moreover, samples from developed countries showed higher effects of ESM usage on job performance than those from developing countries. These findings hold several implications for related theoretical research and business management practices.     

Enterprise social media affordances as enablers of knowledge transfer and creative performance: An empirical study

Extant research largely views employee creativity to be driven by individual characteristics, contextual factors, and interactions between them. However, the role of social technologies in enhancing employees’ creativity remains understudied. To address this gap, this study constructs and empirically examines a research model to explore the effect of enterprise social media (ESM) affordances on employee creative performance from the perspective of knowledge transfer. An analysis of survey data gathered from 365 Chinese employees using Dingtalk indicates that association, visibility, persistence, and editability affordances of ESM exert positive influences on knowledge acquisition and knowledge provision, which further facilitates creative performance. Findings show that the links between ESM affordances and creative performance are mainly mediated by knowledge provision. This study enriches the extant research on social technologies and user innovation, and provides guidance for enterprise practice.     

Bringing Technological Frames to Work: How Previous Experience with Social Media Shapes the Technology's Meaning in an Organization

This study examines the expectations that workers have regarding enterprise social media (ESM). Using interviews with 58 employees at an organization implementing an ESM platform, we compare workers' views of the technology with those of existing workplace communication technologies and publicly available social media. We find individuals' frames regarding expectations and assumptions of social media are established through activities outside work settings and influence employees' views about the usefulness of ESM. Differences in technological frames regarding ESM were related to workers' age and level of personal social media use, but in directions contrary to expectations expressed in the literature. Findings emphasize how interpretations of technology may shift over time and across contexts in unique ways for different individuals.     

基于自激振荡器模型的辐射源个体识别方法

辐射源指纹识别也称为特定辐射源识别(SEI),是指通过对接收信号进行特征测量,确定产生信号的辐射源个体,是电子战、电磁环境监视等领域的关键技术之一.本文针对自激振荡类型的发射机,从射频振荡器的等效电路模型出发,提出了一种模型化的辐射源个体识别方法.仿真结果表明,该模型化方法扩展了传统的特征定义,集成信号瞬时频率、瞬时带宽的相关信息,具有良好的分类能力.在调制电压发生较大变化时,该方法能弥补传统上升沿、下降沿时延测量方法的不足.     

Intergroup conflict and conflict management in the R&Ddivisions of four aerospace companies

The author examined the intergroup conflict between R&D managers and non-managers in four aerospace companies, as well as the relationship between each of the five conflict-handling modes: competition, accommodation, sharing, collaboration, and avoidance, with the following variables: conflict frequency, job satisfaction, and job performance. The research findings indicate that intergroup conflicts were in the areas of goals, reward, control, authority, and insufficient assistance from technical support staff. Furthermore, intergroup conflict and conflict management were found to have both positive and negative consequences. Competition and avoidance were found to have exacerbated the frequency of conflict, and they had a negative impact on performance. Collaboration was found to have ameliorated the frequency of conflict, and it had a rather high positive impact on performance. Both sharing and accommodation were found to be inconsistently related to conflict frequency, and they had an inconsistent impact on performance. For three organizations, job satisfaction was negatively related to conflict frequency and avoidance while it was negatively related to accommodation based on one sample of subjects from one organization only. Competition, sharing, and collaboration were not found to be significantly related to job satisfaction     

Les deux dimensions des usages innovants des nouvelles technologies des télécommunications dans une grande entreprise

First of all are set the basis for an overall problematic on feeling how important the new communication technologies should be to business strategy in large companies. Then the adaptation to cultural logic is discussed and the innovative usage of new communication technologies as implemented in a given company are widely clarified. Especially the solution to ambivalent attitude towards new communication technologies is given when moving to innovation in some fields and by total lack of creativity in others. The cultural system as responsible for such kind of adaptation relies on a certain management logic intricately bound with economic technical and personnal promotion logics. Finally, the paper shows that changes in technology may contribute well to company development, the proper structure being already at hand, provided their cultural behavior consents to it.     

“Who's reading my e-mail?”: a study of professionals'e-mail usage and privacy perceptions in the workplace

E-mail privacy in the workplace has emerged as one of the most complex ethical and legal issues confronting corporate communication in the electronic age. The paper discusses the array of legal and ethical concerns of e-mail privacy in the workplace. Building on the existing body of knowledge on the topic, the results of a research study are presented which explore the similarities and differences in e-mail usage and privacy perceptions among management level and administrative level employees. The survey, which polled 337 working professionals, confirmed the popular belief that companies are not effectively communicating their e-mail monitoring policies to their employees. Finally, recommendations are made to corporate communicators on how best to forge an e-mail communications policy that can reduce the risk of disputes, incidents, and lawsuits regarding e-mail privacy issues     

Understanding publics’ post-crisis social media engagement behaviors: An examination of antecedents and mediators

This study examines the psychological mechanisms underlying the process that enables publics’ individual differences (e.g., the levels of uncertainty avoidance and social media usage) to give rise to varying post-crisis social media engagement intentions (e.g., information seeking, support seeking, and negative word-of-mouth). The study confirms that this process is serially mediated by perceived threat severity, perceived susceptibility, and negative emotions. These psychological mediators, however, function differently between uncertainty avoidance and social media usage. For uncertainty avoidance, a high arousal negative emotion (e.g., anger, fear) is a more essential step to influence engagement intentions than a low arousal emotion (e.g., shame, guilt). For social media usage, however, the type of aroused negative emotions does not matter. Rather, the relationship social media usage has with information seeking is different from that with support seeking and negative word-of-mouth intentions. Social media usage induces information seeking intentions only through publics’ cognitive appraisals of the situation without the activation of negative emotions, while it induces supporting seeking and negative word-of-mouth intentions through both cognitive appraisals and negative emotion arousals.     

Is ChatGPT scary good? How user motivations affect creepiness and trust in generative artificial intelligence

Few studies have examined user motivations to use generative artificial intelligence (AI). This research aims to address this gap by examining how user motivations for ChatGPT usage affect perceived creepiness, trust, and the intention to continue using AI chatbot technology. The findings of an online survey (N = 421) reveal a negative relationship between personalization and creepiness, while task efficiency and social interaction are positively associated with creepiness. Increased levels of creepiness, in turn, result in decreased continuance intention. Furthermore, task efficiency and personalization have a positive impact on trust, leading to increased continuance intention. The results contribute to the field of human–computer interaction by investigating the motivations for utilizing generative AI chatbots and advancing our comprehension of AI creepiness, trust, and continuance intention. The practical ramifications of this research can inform the design of user interfaces and the development of features for generative AI chatbots.     

Mind the gap [age gap problems between employees]

Although differences between the generations in the workplace are often brushed off as harmless or even humorous, the misunderstandings at times lead to conflict, disgruntlement, and worse. Over time, misunderstandings and miscommunications can accumulate and grow into real rifts. Ultimately, aggrieved professionals may leave their company altogether. Several companies are beginning to recognize the lost productivity and poor morale that stem from generational rifts. Intractable as the problem may appear, say workplace experts, the solution is straightforward: awareness, education, and communication. Generational issues are a subset of communications. If you understand where a person is coming from, it will help you predict their behavior. It will help to know how to communicate with them. This article briefly discusses how to address the problems.     

Implementation of firmware on SPC switching systems

The recent trend toward distributed processing in stored-program-controlled (SPC) switching systems has resulted in increased use of firmware. The impact of firmware on SPC switching system reliability and maintainability, after sale of the product to user companies, can be substantial. The author examines both life cycle practices for firmware and the impact of firmware on switching systems, and he suggests means to lessen this impact. He examines present firmware technologies, which indicate a trend toward electrically erasable/programmable firmware devices; shows the importance of parallel development methodologies for firmware and software; shows the advantages of loose coupling between firmware and software; shows a relationship between the quality of firmware product and the quality of service a telephone company provides; and suggest a classification of firmware devices     

Task Conflict, Integrative Potential, and Conflict Management Strategies in Joint Ventures

Existing studies of conflict management in joint ventures (JVs) assume that the characteristics of the tasks that generate conflict have no impact on either the conflict-performance relationship or on the effectiveness of conflict management techniques. In this paper, we challenge this assumption by examining JV conflict over R&D and marketing tasks. Because JVs decisions are made by two or more partners, often with very different goals and agendas, the potential for conflict is high. In some cases, this conflict can have a positive impact on performance. We hypothesize that this possibility is more likely in the context of R&D task conflict, because: 1) marketing task conflict is relatively more likely to involve distributive (win-lose) issues and 2) when win-win (integrative) potential exists, disputants are relatively less likely to perceive this potential in marketing task conflicts (i.e., the disputants in a marketing task conflict are more likely to approach their conflict from a fixed-pie perspective). Our analysis of data collected from 196 JVs clearly supports this hypothesis. We also find that the relative effectiveness of different conflict management strategies varies depending on whether they are applied to R&D or marketing task conflict. Our results demonstrate the importance of aligning conflict management strategies with the integrative potential of R&D and marketing tasks.     

Determinants of Corporate R&D Investment: An Empirical Study Comparing Korea's IT Industry with Its Non‐IT Industry

In our study, we extracted the market, finance, and government factors determining R&D investment of individual firms in the IT industry in Korea. We collected the financial data of 515 individual firms belonging to IT and non‐IT industries between 1980 and 1999 from the Korea Investors Service's database and investigated the empirical relationship between the factors using an ordinary regression model, a fixed effects model, and a random effects model. The main findings of our study are as follows: i) The Herfindahl Index variable representing the degree of market concentration is statistically insignificant in explaining R&D expenditures in the IT manufacturing industry. ii) Assets, which is used as a proxy variable for firm size, have a positive and statistically significant coefficient. These two results suggest that the Schumpeterian Hypothesis may be only partially applied to the IT manufacturing industry in Korea. iii) The dividend variable has a negative value and is statistically significant, indicating that a tendency of high dividends can restrict the internal cash flow for R&D investment. iv) The sales variable representing growth potential shows a positive coefficient. v) The subsidy as a proxy variable for governmental R&D promotion policies is positively correlated with R&D expenditure. This suggests that government policy has played a significant role in promoting R&D activities of IT firms in Korea since 1980. vi) Using a dummy variable, we verified that firms reduced their R&D investments to secure sufficient liquidity under the restructuring pressure during Korea's 1998 and 1999 economic crisis.     

A customer-based indirect approach to determine the value of news provided to Internet portals in Korea

The online channel becomes one of the most important distribution channels of news contents. As the portal becomes a platform for the distribution of news content to users, the conflict between the portal and newspaper companies arises about the value of the news content provided to Internet portals by newspaper companies. This paper attempts to estimate the value of the news content on the portal using the case of the relationship between the Naver portal site and newspaper companies in Korea. Since there is no direct way to estimate the value of news content, this study utilizes an indirect way based on consumer’s intention to visit portal site. An analytic hierarchy process based on consumer surveys is employed in this paper to estimate the relative importance of news content on a main page and a search service. On the basis of this relative importance, this paper estimates the portal’s operating income which is generated by the contribution of news content, using accounting data from Naver.     

How socially anxious people become compulsive social media users: The role of fear of negative evaluation and rejection

This study investigates the impact of social interaction anxiety on compulsive social media usage. To provide insights into the gaps in previous research, the authors identify the channels, and hypothesize that negative evaluation and rejection fears mediate the relationship between social interaction anxiety and compulsive social media usage. Further, the moderating role of frustration about unavailability and gender differences are considered in the framework for robustness purposes. Using a convenience sampling method and variance-based structural equation modeling, the authors analyzed a non-clinical sample of 402 Chinese university students. Survey results find that social interaction anxiety increases compulsive social media usage both directly and indirectly through fear of negative evaluation and fear of rejection with a stronger effect of the former. Moreover, the mediating effect of fear of negative evaluation transfers through fear of rejection, which establishes a serial link between social interaction anxiety and compulsive social media usage. Interestingly, frustration about unavailability strengthens the relationship only between fear of rejection and compulsive social media usage. Females exhibit more social interaction anxiety and fear of negative evaluation, which lead them to become more compulsive social media users, while males experience more fear of rejection. These findings can improve our understanding of the role and process by which social interaction anxiety influences compulsive social media usage, and thus may help psychologists to develop better counseling programs for compulsive male and female social media users, addressing their social interaction deficits and excessive reliance on social media applications.     

The role of media in user participation: Focusing on the knowledge activity in online space

Media technology have been considered a catalyst for boosting communication between the sources of information. Contrary to traditional media, new media which use online communication shows high interactivity properties. This characteristic allows people to participate in collective activities such as discussion, evaluation, or creating documents. Consequently, the role of media in online space has focused on delivering individual knowledge to others rather than just adopting selected information. We studied the effect of media usage patterns on creating knowledge in online communities. In our study, we divided user groups into three based on the degree to which people participate in knowledge collaboration in the online space: active participant, passive participant, and bystander. The results indicate that the active participant group is most likely to use smartphone and tablet PC to create knowledge in online space which means they prefer high accessibility rather than familiar mediators.     

基于光离子化技术的气体检测系统设计与实现

针对航空领域大型作业场所需要连续检测低浓度气体浓度的任务,设计了一种基于光离子化技术的气体检测系统。该系统以FPGA为控制芯片,采用光离子化技术,实现连续检测低浓度气体浓度的功能,同时因其响应速度快,使用更加方便。该系统对1×10^-6~200×10^-6浓度的异丁烯和乙烯、丙烯和二甲醚气体进行测试,结果表明,基于光离子化技术的气体检测系统能够在3 s内检测低浓度气体的浓度,分辨率为2×10^-6,同时自身具备防护能力,能够适应电磁干扰、强冲击等恶劣环境。     

弹载ESM系统中的目标方位及坐标解算

研究了基于弹载电子侦察（ESM）系统的测量方位与弹体空间三维坐标关系及变换原理,并根据测量方位与弹体姿态信息的解耦关系,得出目标相对于坐标原点的坐标及方位角和俯仰角。仿真结果表明,该方法可用于导引头侦察系统中目标方位的解算及定位。