Work Is Fun, Isn’t It? Bibliometrics Of Fun Work
Abstract
The attention and interest in fun work have exponentially increased among practitioners and academic communities. This phenomenon replaced the old-fashioned view that created a rigid climate in the office. Many employees have adopted a fun work culture to improve employer branding and employee experiences and retain their talents. Using bibliometric techniques, this study aimed to capture the trend of research in fun work and identify research streams in fun work derived from the critical topic distributions of the fun work academic literature. We performed word co-occurrence analysis, author network analysis, and publication analysis. This study identified four streams in the science of fun work: activities to make work fun, a fun work environment system, positive effects of fun work, and support for fun work. The research trend and research streams in Fun Work provided insight for researchers to find potential issues to address in future research. They revealed the interactions as well as connections among researchers in fun work.
Keywords
DOI: 10.22146/gamaijb.76200
References
Adams, D. 2019. Publish or Perish version 7. Retrieved January 10, 2022, from Research in International Management: https://harzing.com/blog/2019/09/publish-or-perish-version-7.
Alif, M. I., & Nastiti, T. (2022). Empowering leadership in creativity and work effort: An elucidation through the psychological empowerment and self-leadership of the millennials generation. Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business, 24(3), 269-288.
Alola, U. V., Asongu, S., & Alola, A. A. (2019). Linking supervisor incivility with job embeddedness and cynicism: The mediating role of employee self-efficacy. Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business, 21(3), 330-352.
Anderson, N. 2019. Mapping the expatriate literature: a bibliometric review of the field from 1998 to 2017 and identification of current research fronts. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 32(22), 4687–4724.
Araújo, M.S.G. de, and P.M.P.R. Lopes. 2015. “Virtuous Leadership, Organizational Commitment and Individual Performance.” Tékhne - Review of Applied Management Studies. Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave (IPCA).
Berdahl, J., & Aquino, K. 2009. Sexual Behavior at Work: Fun or Folly? Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(1), 34-47.
Bolton, S.C. and Houlihan, M. (2009). Are we having fun yet? A consideration of workplace fun and engagement. Employee Relations, 31 (6), 556–568.
Chan, S. C. 2010. Does workplace fun matter? Developing a useable typology of workplace fun in a qualitative study. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 29(4), 720–728.
Chan, S. C. 2019. Participative leadership and job satisfaction: The mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of fun experienced at work. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 40(3), 319–333.
Chan, S. C., & Mak, M. 2016. Have you experienced fun in the workplace? An empirical study of workplace fun, trust-in-management, and job satisfaction. Journal of Chinese Human Resource Management, 7(1), 27-38.
Chen, H., & Ayoun, B. 2019. Is negative workplace humor really all that "negative"? Workplace humor and hospitality employees' job embeddedness. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 79, 41–49.
Collins, J. C., & Porras, J. 2005. Built to last: Successful habits of visionary companies. Random House.
Crawford, C. B. (1994). Theory and implications regarding the utilization of strategic humor by leaders. Journal of Leadership Studies, 1(4), 53-68.
Dale, S. 2014. Gamification: Making work fun, or making fun of work? Business information review, 31(2), 82–90.
Deal, T., & Kennedy, A. 1982. Corporate cultures: The rites and rituals of corporate life. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Dempcy, M., Tihista, R., & Watson, R. R. (1981). Your Stress Personalities: A Look at Your Selves. Presidio Press.
Djastuti, I., Rahardjo, S. T., Irviana, L., & Udin, U. 2019. Fun at Work and Employee Performance: The Roles of Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Manufacturing Companies. WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics, 16, 153-162.
Ferreira, F. A. 2018. Mapping the field of arts-based management: Bibliographic coupling and co-citation analyses. Journal of Business Research, 85(1), 348–357.
Fineman, S. 2006. On being positive: Concerns and counterpoints. Academy of Management Review, 31(2), 270–291.
Fleming, P. 2005. Workers' Playtime: Boundaries and Cynicism in a 'Culture of Fun' Program. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 41, 285–303.
Fleming, P., & Spicer, A. 2004. ‘You Can Checkout Anytime, but You Can Never Leave’: Spatial Boundaries in a High Commitment Organization. Human Relations, 57(1), 75–94.
Fleming, P., & Sturdy, A. 2009. “Just be yourself!” Towards neo‐normative control in organisations?. Employee relations, 31(6), 569–583.
Fluegge, E. R. 2008 Who put the fun in functional? Fun at work and its effects on job performance (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Florida, Gainesville.
Ford, R. C., McLaughlin, F. S., & Newstrom, J. W. 2003. Questions and answers about fun at work. Human Resource Planning, 26(4), 18–33.
Ford, R. C., Newstrom, J. W., & McLaughlin, F. S. 2004. Making workplace fun more functional. Industrial and Commercial Training, 36(3), 117–120.
Ford, R., McLaughlin, F., & Newstrom, J. 2004. Having fun at work. Engineering Management, 14(2), 32–33.
Frederick W. Becker & Michael J. Tews. 2016. Fun activities at work: Do they matter to hospitality employees? Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality & Tourism, 15(3), 279-29.
Georganta, K., & Montgomery, A. 2019. Workplace fun: A matter of context and not content. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, 14(3), 317–336.
Gin Choi, Y., Kwon, J., & Kim, W. 2013. Effects of attitudes vs experience of workplace fun on employee behaviors: Focused on Generation Y in the hospitality industry. International journal of contemporary hospitality management, 25(3), 410–427.
Karl, K., Peluchette, J., & Hall, L. 2008. Give them something to smile about A marketing strategy for recruiting and retaining volunteers. Journal of Nonprofit and Public Sector Marketing, 20(1), 91-96.
Kraus, S., Filser, M., Eggers, F., Hills, G. E., & Hultman, C. M. 2012. The entrepreneurial marketing domain: a citation and co‐citation analysis. Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, 14(1), 6-26.
Lamm, E., & Meeks, M. 2009. Workplace fun: the moderating effects of generational differences. Employee Relations, 31(6), 613-631.
McDowell, T. 2004. Fun at work: Scale development, confirmatory factor analysis, and links to organizational outcomes (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Alliant International University, San Diego, CA.
McMurray, A., & Scott, D. 2003. The relationship between organizational climate and organizational culture. Journal of American Academy of Business, Cambridge, 3(1), 1–8.
Meek, A. 2015. Google’s head of HR shares his hiring secrets.
Meng, Y., Zou, L., He, J., & Luo, C. (2015). Supervisors’ leadership and health science researchers’ intrinsic motivation: The mediate role of psychological empowerment. Nankai Business Review International, 6(1), 68-81.
Michel, J. W., Tews, M. J., & Allen, D. G. 2019. Fun in the workplace: A review and expanded theoretical perspective. Human Resource Management Review, 29(1), 98-110.
Nair, S., & Nair, B. C. 2018. Employee Engagement Practices in Organized Retail Sector: An Empirical Study with Respect to Ernakulam Town. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(3), 453-455.
Nnambooze, E. B., & Parumasur, S. B. 2016. Understanding the multigenerational workforce: Are the generations significantly different or similar? Corporate Ownership and Contro, 13(2), 224-237.
Owler, K., Morrison, R. and Plester, B. (2010), Does fun work? The complexity of promoting fun at work. Journal of Management and Organization, 16(3), 338-352.
Owler, K., Morrison, R., & Plester, B. 2010. Does fun work? The complexity of promoting fun at work. Journal of Management & Organization, 16(3), 338-352.
Peters, T., & Waterman, R. H. 1982. In search of excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies. New York: Harper and Row.
Plester, B. 2009. Crossing the line: Boundaries of workplace humour and fun. Employee Relations, 31(6). 584-599.
Plester, B., & Hutchison, A. 2016. Fun times: The relationship between fun and engagement. Employee Relations: The International Journal, 38(3), 332-350.
Plester, B., Cooper-Thomas, H., & Winquist, J. (2015). The fun paradox. Employee Relations, 37(3), 380-398.
Radhakrishnan, S., Erbis, S., Isaacs, J. A., & Kamarthi, S. 2017. Novel keyword co-occurrence network-based methods to foster systematic reviews of scientific literature. PLoS ONE, 12(3), e0172778.
Romero, E. J., & Cruthirds, K. W. (2006). The Use of Humor in the Workplace. The Academy of Management Perspectives, 20(2), 58–69.
Romero, E., & Pescosolido, A. 2008. Humor and group effectiveness. Human relations, 61(3), 395-418.
Schmidt, E., & Rosenberg, J. 2014. How Google works. Grand Central Publishing.
SCImago Research Group. (2007). Description of Scimago journal rank indicator. Retrieved March, 3, 2018.
Smith, W. K., & Lewis, M. W. 2011. Toward a theory of paradox: A dynamic equilibrium model of organizing. Academy of Management Review, 36(2), 381-403.
Stewart, W. 1996. ISO 9000 work instruction‐subject: fun. The TQM Magazine, 8(4), 17-19.
Syahrul, K. (2020). The effect of empowering leadership on intrinsic motivation: the role of psychological empowerment as a mediation. Journal of Leadership in Organizations, 2(2).
Tews, M. J., Michel, J. W., & Bartlett, A. 2012. The Fundamental Role of Workplace Fun in Applicant Attraction. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 19(1), 105–114.
Tews, M. J., Michel, J. W., & Stafford, K. 2013. Does fun pay? The impact of workplace fun on employee turnover and performance. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 54(4), 370-382.
Tews, M., Michel, J., & Allen, D. 2014. Fun and friends: The impact of workplace fun and constituent attachment on turnover in a hospitality context. Human Relations, 67(8), 923-946.
Tews, M., Michel, J., & Noe, R. A. 2017. Does fun promote learning? The relationship between fun in the workplace and informal learning. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 98, 46-55.
Thomas, K. W., & Velthouse, B. A. (1990). Cognitive elements of empowerment: An “interpretive” model of intrinsic task motivation. Academy of Management Review, 15(4), 666-681.
Tsaur, S. H., Hsu, F. S., & Lin, H. 2019. Workplace fun and work engagement in tourism and hospitality: The role of psychological capital. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 81, 131-140.
Van Eck, N., & Waltman, L. 2010. Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping. Scientometrics, 84(2), 523-538.
Vogel, R., & Guttel, W. H. 2013. The dynamic capability view in strategic management: A bibliometric review. International Journal of Management Reviews, 15(4), 426-446.
Zupic, I., & Cater, T. 2015. Bibliometric methods in management and organization. Organizational Research Methods, 18(3), 429-472.
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.
Copyright (c) 2024 Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Email the author 
