Investigating the employee work performance in task interdependence and ESM environment

Pitafi, Abdul Hameed; Kanwal, Shamsa; Akhtar, Sadia; Irfan, Muhammad

doi:10.1504/ijiscm.2018.096787

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“…As 7-point scale confused the respondents by providing several options (Cheng & Chen, 2015); therefore, an adoption of 5-point Likert scale is more convenient and gives similar results. Additionally, several scholars used 5-point Likert scale in different studies (Cai, Huang, Liu, & Wang, 2018;Liu, Chu, Huang, & Chen, 2016;Pitafi, Kanwal, Akhtar, & Irfan, 2018;Pitafi, Liu, & Cai, 2018). Therefore, in this study, the of local transportation consisted of four items and was adopted by Kozak (2001Kozak ( , 2003 and Merrilees, Miller, and Herington (2009)…”

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China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) development projects and entrepreneurial potential of locals

Kanwal

Pitafi

et al. 2019

Journal of Public Affairs

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This research explores a very important issue arising from the initiation of China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in Pakistan, as the major impact seems to be focused towards small businesses and how they will cope in this competitive market once Chinese businesses enter in the country. According to scholars and officials, CPEC will generate several business opportunities for the local Pakistani community. However, studies related to the CPEC project are limited and only focused on the development of the CPEC project in various aspects alone. The existing study examined the local entrepreneur's attitude and intention in the context of CPEC using a sample of 255 survey questionnaires. Structural equation modeling was used to test the proposed hypotheses. Data were gathered from the existing business community in Karachi, Pakistan. The results validated most of the hypotheses showing positive attitude towards entrepreneurs and intention towards CPEC development project. Specifically, local transportation and accessibility of cities show a significant relationship with a positive attitude. Similarly, the attitude of entrepreneurs also shows a positive relationship with entrepreneur's intention towards CPEC development projects. Findings have important theoretical and practical implications for policymakers of CPEC in creating an overall entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) development projects and entrepreneurial potential of locals

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Pitafi

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Journal of Public Affairs

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“…This analytical study explores empirical relationships using a descriptive observational, cross-sectional, deductive, and quantitative approach (Pitafi et al, 2018a , b ; Farashah and Blomquist, 2019 ).…”

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Social Media Application as a New Paradigm for Business Communication: The Role of COVID-19 Knowledge, Social Distancing, and Preventive Attitudes

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Business firms and the public have encountered massive consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This pandemic has become the most significant challenge and influenced all communities. This research study focuses on exploring the relationship between COVID-19 knowledge, social distancing, individuals' attitudes toward social media use, and practices of using social media amid the COVID-19 crisis. This study examines how attitudes toward social media use mediate the linkage between COVID-19 knowledge, social distancing, and practices for social media use. This survey uses a non-probability convenience sampling approach to collect samples and recruit willing respondents with their consent for data collection. This study recorded the feedback from 348 participants who encountered the indirect/direct effects of nationwide lockdowns, restrictions on social gatherings, and COVID-19 infection. The findings validate the proposed hypotheses for their direct effects and indicate significant β-values, t-statistics, and the p-values at p <0.001. The results validate a relationship between the COVID-19 knowledge of and social distancing practices. Similarly, the results approved a positive link between social distancing and attitudes toward social media use amid COVID-19. The findings validate the relation between social distancing and attitudes toward social media use during COVID-19 challenges (β-value = 0.22 and t-statistics = 3.078). The results show the linkage between attitudes toward social media use and practices of using social media (β-value = 0.41, and t-statistics = 7.175). Individuals' attitude toward social media use during COVID-19 mediates the connection between COVID-19 knowledge and COVID-19 practices of using social media use. The results validate the first mediation at β-value = 0.21 and t-statistic = 5.327. Similarly, the findings approve that attitudes toward social media use in the pandemic have positively mediated the relation between distancing and practices for social media use amid the crisis of COVID-19 (β-value = 0.09 and t-statistic = 2.633). The findings indicate how people have been indulged in social media to pave their business communication needs. The results provide valuable insights for the global business community. This study provides a systematic and holistic research model that helps in exploring the consequences of COVID-19. The generalizability of the findings provides valuable directions for future research related to the current pandemic.

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“…We developed all the instruments and measurements from previous related studies, which were published in well-reputed journals. All employees in this study were Chinese, so we followed the procedure of previous studies (van de Vijver and Leung, 1997;Pitafi et al, 2018a) and invited three native Chinese interpreters to translate the original English language questionnaire into Chinese. The author then invited another five native Chinese experts who were fluent in English to translate the Chinese language questionnaire into English.…”

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“…Given the touted benefits of ESM usage in the workplace, scholars have investigated its consequences on individual job performance (Pitafi et al, 2018b;Cao and Yu, 2019) and observed mixed results. Accordingly, Pitafi et al (2018a) observed that ESM usage has a significant effect on employee work performance. In contrast, Cao and Yu (2019) reported that ESM usage is negatively related to employee work performance.…”

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Investigating the Consequences of the Socio-Instrumental Use of Enterprise Social Media on Employee Work Efficiency: A Work-Stress Environment

Pitafi

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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Enterprise social media (ESM) has been widely adopted by firms for employee work-related communication. However, it is still debatable how such usage benefits work stress and employee work efficiency. Applying the transactional theory of stress, this study examined the impact of resilience as a moderator on the link between work stressors and individual work efficiency. A total of 285 entries were used to analyze the proposed hypothesis, using structural equation modeling (SEM) technique and hierarchical regression analysis on SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0 software. According to the findings, ESM use has a considerable impact on work stresses (challenge and hindrance). The findings also revealed that challenge stressors have a beneficial influence on employee work efficiency, while hindrance stressors have a negative impact on it. Furthermore, the results also indicated that resilience strengthens the positive relationship between challenge-stressed employees and work efficiency. However, the findings also revealed that resilience reduces the negative association between hindrance-stress and work efficiency. Finally, the author also explored the study's implications for theory and management.

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Investigating the employee work performance in task interdependence and ESM environment

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China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) development projects and entrepreneurial potential of locals

China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) development projects and entrepreneurial potential of locals

Social Media Application as a New Paradigm for Business Communication: The Role of COVID-19 Knowledge, Social Distancing, and Preventive Attitudes

Investigating the Consequences of the Socio-Instrumental Use of Enterprise Social Media on Employee Work Efficiency: A Work-Stress Environment

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