Purpose

Fun at workplace is considered an important initiative to build co-working communities, and this study aims to study its role in promoting the innovative behaviour of co-workers [members of co-working spaces (CWS)] and the mechanism of its influence.

Design/methodology/approach

Based on the theory of social exchange and resource conservation, the authors conducted a qualitative study to explore the four dimensions of workplace fun and a quantitative study to empirically analyse the relationship between community embeddedness, organisational embeddedness, workplace fun and creativity of co-workers, taking K-space as an example.

Findings

Workplace fun is positively correlated with co-workers' creativity. Community embeddedness plays a complete mediating role between workplace fun and organisational embeddedness. Community embeddedness and organisational embeddedness play a chain-mediating role between workplace fun and creativity.

Originality/value

This study explores the process and impact of fun on employee creativity in a shared office environment by clarifying the composition of fun in CWS workplaces and the transmission mechanism of fun through informal community embeddedness and formal organisational embeddedness, expanding the research perspective on the factors influencing employee creativity in the new office model and enriching the research findings on the impact of fun at work on job performance.

中文翻译：

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联合办公空间中的工作乐趣对办公室职员创造力的影响

目的

职场乐趣被认为是构建联合办公社区的重要举措，本研究旨在研究其在促进同事[联合办公空间成员（CWS）]创新行为中的作用及其影响机制。

设计/方法论/途径

基于社会交换和资源节约理论，作者通过定性研究探讨了职场乐趣的四个维度，并通过定量研究实证分析了社区嵌入性、组织嵌入性、工作乐趣与同事创造力之间的关系。以K空间为例。

发现

工作场所的乐趣与同事的创造力呈正相关。社区嵌入在工作场所乐趣和组织嵌入之间发挥着完全的中介作用。社区嵌入性和组织嵌入性在工作场所乐趣和创造力之间发挥着链式中介作用。

原创性/价值

本研究通过阐明CWS工作场所乐趣的构成以及非正式社区嵌入和正式组织嵌入的乐趣传递机制，探讨共享办公环境中乐趣对员工创造力的过程和影响，拓展了影响员工因素的研究视角。新办公模式的创造力，丰富了工作乐趣对工作绩效影响的研究成果。