Having fun! The role of workplace fun in enhancing employees' creative behaviors in Chinese work settings.

ABSTRACT: Digital platforms and tech giants have led to a rapid shift in values and traditional ways of working. Although "diligence" has long been essential for work success and promotion, employees in modern companies are reluctant to blindly follow this attitude. Many well-known Western companies, such as Facebook and Google, see fun in the workplace as conducive to productivity and creative behavior. We investigated the associations of fun at work with experienced fun, employees' creative behavior, managers' support for fun, and trust in a Chinese context using different scales. Discriminant validity was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. A total of 508 workers from Taiwan and mainland China participated in the study and completed questionnaires. A key finding was that fun at work was po

SUBMITTER: Yang FR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10040513 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature