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A Study on Workplace Fun Affects Employee Engagement: Case Study of Manufacturing Industry

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The conception of workplace fun includes socially taking part in interesting and spontaneous positive occasions in the working environment; such occasions are crucial in refining associations for workers. In spite of the fact that fun and also amusingness can both be enjoyable, fun at work incorporates to some degree a distinctive range of activities. Academic studies have connected workplace fun with employee performance, job satisfaction, expanded creativity and development and organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB), while mainstream press articles have made the connection of workplace fun to the decreased truancy as well as job burnout. Hence, this research has been conducted to identify which types of workplace fun, namely, personal freedom, socializing with co-worker and organizational culture, have significantly contributed towards employee engagement. Based on the result, socializing with co-worker and organizational culture have positive and significant relationship with employee engagement, whereas personal freedom has negative relationship with employee engagement.

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  1. Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Perlis, Arau, Malaysia

    Eliy Nazira Mat Nazir, Nurul Farihin Mhd Nasir & Nor Azura Halim

  2. Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Puncak Alam, Malaysia

    Muhammad Syukri Abdullah

  3. Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Kedah, Merbok, Malaysia

    Dalili Izni Shafie

  4. Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Johor, Masai, Malaysia

    Nor Farehan Omar

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    Ahmad Nizan Mat Noor

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Mat Nazir, E.N., Abdullah, M.S., Mhd Nasir, N.F., Shafie, D.I., Omar, N.F., Halim, N.A. (2019). A Study on Workplace Fun Affects Employee Engagement: Case Study of Manufacturing Industry. In: Mat Noor, A., Mohd Zakuan, Z., Muhamad Noor, S. (eds) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Future of ASEAN (ICoFA) 2017 - Volume 1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8730-1_57

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