Techno-invasion and job satisfaction in China: The roles of boundary preference for segmentation and marital status

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Human systems management Pub Date : 2022-04-21 DOI:10.3233/hsm-211595

Jinnan Wu, Shan-Qing Guo, Wenpei Zhang, Donghee Shin, Mengmeng Son

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: While the intensive work-related use of information and communication technologies after working hours have led to increased techno-invasion, much less is known regarding whether and for whom techno-invasion influences job satisfaction. OBJECTIVE: Drawing on the conservation of resources theory and person-environment fit theory, this study examined the relationship between techno-invasion and decreased job satisfaction. Specific attention was paid to the moderating effect of boundary preference for segmentation and its joint influence with marital status on this relationship. METHODS: Questionnaire data were collected by an online survey of a nationwide and diverse sample of 472 employees from China. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis and hierarchical regression analysis. RESULTS: We found that techno-invasion negatively correlated with job satisfaction, which was strengthened by boundary preference for segmentation. Furthermore, the results of a three-way interaction effect suggested that the moderating role of boundary preference for segmentation on the relationship between techno-invasion and job satisfaction is stronger for unmarried employees than it is for married ones. CONCLUSIONS: The effect of techno-invasion on employees’ job satisfaction can be strengthened or weakened by their boundary preference for segmentation and marital status.

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技术入侵与中国工作满意度：边界偏好对分割和婚姻状况的影响

背景：虽然下班后与工作相关的信息和通信技术的密集使用导致了技术入侵的增加，但关于技术入侵是否以及对谁影响工作满意度，人们知之甚少。目的：运用资源节约理论和人-环境适应理论，研究技术入侵与工作满意度下降之间的关系。特别注意到边界偏好对分割的调节作用及其与婚姻状况对这种关系的共同影响。方法：通过在线调查收集问卷数据，调查对象为全国472名中国员工。采用描述性统计、验证性因素分析和层次回归分析对数据进行分析。结果：我们发现技术入侵与工作满意度呈负相关，而对细分的边界偏好强化了这一相关性。此外，三元交互效应的结果表明，边界偏好对技术入侵和工作满意度之间关系的调节作用，未婚员工比已婚员工更强。结论：技术入侵对员工工作满意度的影响可以通过他们对细分的边界偏好和婚姻状况来加强或削弱。

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Human systems management MANAGEMENT-

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3.50

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30.40%

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期刊介绍： Human Systems Management (HSM) is an interdisciplinary, international, refereed journal, offering applicable, scientific insight into reinventing business, civil-society and government organizations, through the sustainable development of high-technology processes and structures. Adhering to the highest civic, ethical and moral ideals, the journal promotes the emerging anthropocentric-sociocentric paradigm of societal human systems, rather than the pervasively mechanistic and organismic or medieval corporatism views of humankind’s recent past. Intentionality and scope Their management autonomy, capability, culture, mastery, processes, purposefulness, skills, structure and technology often determine which human organizations truly are societal systems, while others are not. HSM seeks to help transform human organizations into true societal systems, free of bureaucratic ills, along two essential, inseparable, yet complementary aspects of modern management: a) the management of societal human systems: the mastery, science and technology of management, including self management, striving for strategic, business and functional effectiveness, efficiency and productivity, through high quality and high technology, i.e., the capabilities and competences that only truly societal human systems create and use, and b) the societal human systems management: the enabling of human beings to form creative teams, communities and societies through autonomy, mastery and purposefulness, on both a personal and a collegial level, while catalyzing people’s creative, inventive and innovative potential, as people participate in corporate-, business- and functional-level decisions. Appreciably large is the gulf between the innovative ideas that world-class societal human systems create and use, and what some conventional business journals offer. The latter often pertain to already refuted practices, while outmoded business-school curricula reinforce this problematic situation.