Analyzing the Employees’ New Media Use in the Energy Industry：The Role of Creative Self-Efficacy, Perceived Usefulness and Leaders’ Use

Zhang, Yuting; Yu, Xiangyao; Cai, Ning; Li, Yong

doi:10.3390/su12030967

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“…An academic staff member's perspective or belief regarding social media platforms as successful and beneficial tools would result in creative research and teaching performance in Saudi HEIs. When compared to previous research, our results are consistent with those of Chai and Fan (2017), Hidayat andRohana (2019), andZhang et al (2020). Finally, social networking sites' perceived ease of use has a considerable positive influence on Saudi HECE.…”

Section: Hypotheses Testingsupporting

confidence: 90%

“…Social Networking Sites' Perceived Usefulness: It relates to the user's understanding of the effectiveness of SNS tools in terms of encouraging open and useful communication and boosting taskrelated creativity for both teachers and students, among other advantages (Chai & Fan, 2017, p. 35). Zhang et al (2020) investigated the process of increasing creativity in an energy firm via the use of new media. The researchers used the theory of social and digital media influence and the acceptance model relating to technology (TAM) to determine the relationship between creative self-confidence and perceived usefulness of information acquisition and perceived efficacy of communication regarding the use of novel media.…”

Section: Technology Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Key Factors for a Creative Environment in Saudi Arabian Higher Education Institutions

Qahl

Sohaib

2023

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Aim/Purpose: This research explores the influence of organizational-level and individual-level creativity and innovation and the technology acceptance model toward the higher education creative environment that consists of research creativity and teaching creativity. Background: Creativity and innovation are essential pillars for higher education institutions (HEIs). The two terms are interconnected, where creativity is referring to finding better ideas to do the work, while innovation is referring to how to do and implement these creative ideas. Choosing the optimal creative process and the organizational support needed to develop it is an important goal in achieving a creative and inventive environment. For the success of the creative environment to ensure the improvement of higher education institutions, information technology as social networking sites plays a crucial part in the creative process within universities. However, assessing the creativity and innovation of Saudi higher education institutions has not been well recognized. Universities today serve as knowledge-based institutions because they are at the forefront of cutting-edge R&D and scientific innovations. Creating such a productive research environment in universities, however, necessitates a work culture that encourages employees to be more creative while also encouraging the creation of new ideas and innovations. Methodology: A survey instrument was utilized as a quantitative method for this research to gather data from the study sample on the influencing variables employed in the research framework. Respondent data were analyzed using a disjoint two-stage method using PLS-SEM path modelling. Contribution: The results of this research contribute to the theoretical and scientific literature by offering a model of creativity and innovation in higher education institutions. The model proposes an optimal blend of organizational, individual, and technology variables that contribute to the development of the Higher Education Creative Environment in HEIs via creativity in teaching and research and a culture of innovation. In another way, the proposed framework especially helps to comprehend the challenges regulating establishing teaching and research creativity in HEIs via the adoption of organizational, individual, and technology enablers identified as part of this study. Findings: According to the results, organizational factors such as organizational encouragement, freedom, and challenging work have a positive relationship with the higher education creative environment. However, realistic work pressure, a lack of organizational impediments, managerial encouragement, and work group support is insufficient to affect the creative environment in higher education in Saudi Arabia. Individual variables (creative thinking skills and expertise, for example) also have a positive impact on the higher education creative environment. In the higher education creative environment, however, the influence of intrinsic motivation is insignificant. Finally, technology factors such as social networking site adoption intention, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use have the potential to influence the higher education creative environment. Recommendations for Practitioners: On the practical front, the obvious recommendation of this research is that it enables top leadership in Saudi HEIs to rethink the norms of creativity and innovation in their institutions, thereby instilling a mindset guided by a flourishing culture of creativity in the HEI environment with a specific focus on creativity practices in research and teaching domains. Furthermore, to promote the environment’s creativity within Saudi Arabian HEIs, university leaders must consider the suggested Organizational, Individual, and Technology factors as key enablers of creativity and innovation, which will guide them in revisiting their strategic actions in terms of further augmenting the creative performance of their academic’s staff, thereby sustaining a culture of Higher Education Creative Environment (HECE). Recommendation for Researchers: This study addressed many organizational, individual, and technology variables that facilitate Saudi Arabian HECE accomplishment in the form of research and teaching creativity. Furthermore, fresh insights for Saudi public HEIs are revealed when the success aspects of the creative environment are considered. If academic leadership at Saudi HEIs is to encourage the creative environment in general and creativity in teaching and research, it would be suitable for them to highlight individual, organizational, and technology success elements. As a result, their HEIs will be able to produce more innovative research, products, and services that can support and meaningfully achieve national transformation initiatives, opening the path for a transition into a knowledge-based economy. Impact on Society: In fact, this research is based on a quantitative research method, and the findings were also significant especially considering the current global crises. It is clearly understood by this process that includes organizational, individual, and technology factors as key enablers of the creative performance of academic staff, thereby sustaining a culture of HECE. Future Research: While providing the research model, it is probable that this study overlooked any other crucial aspects influencing creativity and innovation. As a result, future research should look at additional variables that may impact HECE in Saudi Arabian HEIs. Furthermore, while this study focused on deriving HECE with a particular emphasis on research and teaching creativity as results, future research might look at deriving other creativity outcomes (e.g., entrepreneurial creativity) within the investigated HECE dimension.

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Section: Technology Factorsmentioning

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Key Factors for a Creative Environment in Saudi Arabian Higher Education Institutions

Qahl

Sohaib

2023

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“…Zhang et al. (2020, p. 10) stress the importance of trust at the individual level because if ‘employees do not feel they are confident in using the new technology, they will give up using it’.…”

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Digital internal communication: An interplay of socio‐technical elements

Wuersch

Neher

Peter³

2022

Int J Management Reviews

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Digital transformation has become a research focus in recent years. Likewise, internal communication (IC) is one of the fastest‐growing specialisations in public relations and communication management. This research explores digital internal communication (DIC) at the nexus between digital transformation and IC. We provide an integrative review of the literature; our thematic analysis of selected journal articles and other scholarly texts is guided by the concept of organisations as socio‐technical systems. Furthermore, we create a template using NVivo software to organise the emerging themes and clusters following the logic of communication levels. This template allows us to explain the phenomenon of DIC in a socio‐technical organisational system and discuss how the emerging themes are interrelated, people‐focused, and linked to competency development and trust‐building. As a contribution to theory, we offer a conceptual model which illustrates the dynamics of DIC as an interplay of socio‐technical elements on three communication levels. This conceptual model can be further developed in scholarly discussions on DIC and by organisations reflecting on their IC use in a digital workplace environment.

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“…Many past studies have documented that the perceived usefulness of online food delivery technology directly affects consumers' attitudes and indirectly affects actual behavior (Abdullah et al, 2017;Wen, Pookulangara, & Josiam, 2022;. Zhang et al (2020) argue that consumers develop positive attitudes toward websites that contain useful and relevant information about food delivery mechanisms. Consequently, it directly affects attitudes toward online food delivery leading to positive behavioral intention.…”

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Determinants of Customer Attitude and Behavioral Intention for Online Food Delivery: A Study from Karachi

Khan

2022

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Technology diffusion and COVID-19 pandemic have changed consumers’ attitudes toward online food purchasing. At the same time, the fast food sector has also transformed to attract and retain online food customers. Thus this study, by extending TRA and TAM model, investigates the impact of “perceived usefulness, online trust, time-saving orientation, purchase orientation” on attitudes toward online food purchase intention. It also examines the impact of attitudes and purchase intention and the mediating role of attitudes. Based on the data set of the five leading universities of Karachi, the study found that “perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, time[1]saving orientation, and perceived saving orientation” significantly affect attitudes toward online food purchasing. The study also found a significant association between attitudes and online food purchase intention. However, we did not find any support for the association between trust and online purchase intention. Our study supported all the mediating effects except the mediating effect of attitudes on trust and online food purchase intention.

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Analyzing the Employees’ New Media Use in the Energy Industry：The Role of Creative Self-Efficacy, Perceived Usefulness and Leaders’ Use

Cited by 6 publications

References 45 publications

Key Factors for a Creative Environment in Saudi Arabian Higher Education Institutions

Key Factors for a Creative Environment in Saudi Arabian Higher Education Institutions

Digital internal communication: An interplay of socio‐technical elements

Determinants of Customer Attitude and Behavioral Intention for Online Food Delivery: A Study from Karachi

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