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Having fun! The role of workplace fun in enhancing employees’ creative behaviors in Chinese work settings

Digital platforms and tech giants have led to a rapid shift in values and traditional ways of working. Although “diligence” has long been essential for work success and promotion, employees in modern companies are reluctant to blindly follow this attitude. Many well–known Western companies, such as...

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Autores principales: Yang, Fei Ran, Chen, Chun-Hsi Vivian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10040513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36994408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14597
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description Digital platforms and tech giants have led to a rapid shift in values and traditional ways of working. Although “diligence” has long been essential for work success and promotion, employees in modern companies are reluctant to blindly follow this attitude. Many well–known Western companies, such as Facebook and Google, see fun in the workplace as conducive to productivity and creative behavior. We investigated the associations of fun at work with experienced fun, employees’ creative behavior, managers’ support for fun, and trust in a Chinese context using different scales. Discriminant validity was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. A total of 508 workers from Taiwan and mainland China participated in the study and completed questionnaires. A key finding was that fun at work was positively related to employees’ creative behavior. In addition, moderators of managerial support for fun and trust between the workplace and experienced fun were confirmed. These results can serve as a reference for Chinese managers who want to encourage creative behaviors and prevent negative behaviors in the workplace. In practice, results suggest that fun should be allowed more in the workplace because it could contribute to positive outcomes. However, managers should create a workplace that is fun, allows for creativity, and at the same time leads to high productivity.
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spelling pubmed-100405132023-03-28 Having fun! The role of workplace fun in enhancing employees’ creative behaviors in Chinese work settings Yang, Fei Ran Chen, Chun-Hsi Vivian Heliyon Research Article Digital platforms and tech giants have led to a rapid shift in values and traditional ways of working. Although “diligence” has long been essential for work success and promotion, employees in modern companies are reluctant to blindly follow this attitude. Many well–known Western companies, such as Facebook and Google, see fun in the workplace as conducive to productivity and creative behavior. We investigated the associations of fun at work with experienced fun, employees’ creative behavior, managers’ support for fun, and trust in a Chinese context using different scales. Discriminant validity was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. A total of 508 workers from Taiwan and mainland China participated in the study and completed questionnaires. A key finding was that fun at work was positively related to employees’ creative behavior. In addition, moderators of managerial support for fun and trust between the workplace and experienced fun were confirmed. These results can serve as a reference for Chinese managers who want to encourage creative behaviors and prevent negative behaviors in the workplace. In practice, results suggest that fun should be allowed more in the workplace because it could contribute to positive outcomes. However, managers should create a workplace that is fun, allows for creativity, and at the same time leads to high productivity. Elsevier 2023-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10040513/ /pubmed/36994408 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14597 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36994408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14597
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