Overuse of Social Media Influence Process Performance

Overuse and even addiction of social media has gradually evolved to problematic issue, especially most of the employees in working hours. However, a little research has been done regarding overuse and addiction of social media could distract energy and occupy too much time that should be otherwise used to study work related knowledge, such as digital key technologies and domain knowledge. Excessive use also leads to coordination and cooperation issue, which decrease team/process performance. The study shall adopt case study method to explore in-depth causes of overuse of social media and its potential hazardous effects to regular operations of organizations, especially in a medium sized typical manufactory scenario. A potential solution for top management in organization would be extremely important, especially in the manufacturing sector of the No. 2 Economy of the world.