Title: The role of co-worker support for tackling techno stress along with these influences on need for recovery and work motivation

Authors: Hassan Hessari; Tahmineh Nategh

Addresses: Department of Management, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran ' Department of Management, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran

Abstract: Technology has direct impacts on the survival of the organisation. Its main negative consequence is destructive stress called 'technostress'. This paper aims to survey the effect of co-worker support on reducing the technostress and need for recovery along with investigating the impact of technostress on work motivation and need for recovery. This paper presents proper solutions to help organisation managers in controlling and reducing the destructive consequences of technostress. This study performs a questionnaire survey, and 491 Iranian engineers contributed to this study. We used SEM to test our hypotheses. Results indicate that technostress has a negative and significant effect on work motivation and positively and considerably affects need for recovery. Also, need for recovery adversely impacts work motivation. However, co-worker support remarkably decreases technostress and need for recovery, and it causes enhancement in employees' work motivation. Implications for both organisations and employees are discussed.

Keywords: technostress; co-worker support; need for recovery; work motivation; engineering companies.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIPM.2022.122301

International Journal of Intellectual Property Management, 2022 Vol.12 No.2, pp.233 - 259

Received: 17 Apr 2020
Accepted: 26 Jan 2021
Published online: 19 Apr 2022 *

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