How workplace fun influences employees’ performance: The role of person–organization value congruence

• Jie Tang

  Fujian Normal University

• Min-Shi Liu

  Soochow University , Soochow University

• Wen-Bin Liu

  University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

We drew on affective events theory to investigate the ways in which workplace fun motivates employees and improves their job performance. Analyzing the data collected from supervisor–knowledge worker subordinate dyads in high-tech organizations in mainland China and Taiwan, we found that employees’ perceived person–organization value congruence moderated the relation between workplace fun and employees’ job performance, and this effect was mediated through their experienced fun. We discuss the theoretical and managerial implications of this mediated moderation mechanism.

1. Jie Tang, Fujian Normal University
   School of Economics
2. Min-Shi Liu, Soochow University, Soochow University
   Department of Business Administration
3. Wen-Bin Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
   School of Management and Economics

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