The relationship between work-related smart phone using and work-home balance: The mediating role of workaholism

Year 2019, Issue: 54, 231 - 252, 31.12.2019

Serkan Erebak , Ömer Erdem Koçak

https://doi.org/10.18070/erciyesiibd.538309

Abstract

Work and family have an important role in the life of most of the adults. Extensive use of work related smart phone makes it
difficult to handle the demands that come from both sides. In this study, it is
focused that how workaholic behaviors influenced the process of individual work
related use of smartphones and their work’s interference on their private life.
Through the snowball sampling method, the sample of the study consisted of 224
employees from various companies which provide a smartphone for work. To test
the research model, structural equation modeling (SEM) was used. According to
the results, it was found out that workaholism has a mediation effect between
smart phone using and work – home interference. Accordingly, it can be deducted
that work-related smartphone use after work hours has detrimental effects for
individual employees. Therefore organizations are suggested to regulate their
work-related after-work-hours communication procedures.

Keywords

Smartphone, Workaholism, Work – Life Balance

İş amaçlı akıllı telefon kullanımı ve iş - ev hayatı dengesi ilişkisi: İşkolikleşmenin aracı değişken etkisi

Abstract

İş ve ailenin her ikisi de
çoğu yetişkin insanın yaşamında önemli bir role sahiptir. İş saatleri sonrası
aşırı düzeyde iş amaçlı akıllı telefon kullanımı iki tarafın da taleplerini
karşılayabilmeyi zorlaştırmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, bireylerin iş amaçlı akıllı
telefon kullanmasıyla işlerinin ev hayatlarını engellemesi sürecinde işkolik
davranışların nasıl bir etkiye sahip olduğu araştırılmaktadır. Örneklem,
kartopu örnekleme yöntemi kullanılarak, iş için akıllı telefon sağlayan
şirketlerde çalışmakta olan 224 kişiden oluşmuştur. Araştırma modelini test
etmek amacıyla yapısal eşitlik modellemesi (YEM) kullanılmıştır. Çalışma
sonucunda, işkolikliğin akıllı telefon kullanımının işin ev hayatına
müdahalesine etkisinde aracılık rolü oynadığı ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu sonuca göre
çalışanların iş saatleri sonrasında akıllı telefonlarını iş amaçlı
kullanımlarının zararlı sonuçları olabileceği görülmüştür. Kurumlara iş
saatleri sonrasında iş amaçlı iletişim kurma konusunda yeni düzenlemeler
önerilmektedir. 

Keywords

Akıllı Telefon, İşkoliklik, İş-Yaşam Dengesi

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