Is Guanxi critical to the job burnout of ITP and IS/IT users in Chinese society?
Information Technology & People
ISSN: 0959-3845
Article publication date: 6 September 2022
Issue publication date: 8 September 2023
Abstract
Purpose
The speedy development of information technology (IT) is indeed a significant issue to support the enterprises to spread their products and services to their customers. Although the adoption of IT in the enterprises can help employees' work, it will increase their work exhaustion and job burnout too.
Design/methodology/approach
The survey data of this study was collected from Chinese IT personnel (ITP): 543 and Chinese information systems (IS)/IT users: 525, totaling 1,068 respondents.
Findings
The result shows that the influences of the organizational factors and guanxi on the work exhaustion are different between Chinese ITP and IS/IT users in the research model. Also the implications of the study are discussed and made some contribution to the research and management practice.
Originality/value
By comparison between the Chinese ITP and IS/IT users, this study shows that guanxi can be antecedent factor to some organizational factors, and the organizational factors guanxi have had a different effect on the work exhaustion of Chinese ITP and IS/IT users. Given that the critical successes to the organizations, management should focus on what direction to reduce Chinese ITP and IS/IT users work exhaustion.
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Acknowledgements
Sheng Wu is a co-first author with Christina Ling-hsing Chang. Both authors contributed significantly to this work. The authors are thankful to the Ministry of Science and Technology under the Grants MOST 107-2410-H-153-005-MY2 and MOST 111-2410-H-218-005.
Citation
Chang, C.L.-h. and Wu, S. (2023), "Is
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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