The programming committee for the 77th Annual SAM International Business Conference is pleased to announce the acceptance of the presentation Dependency That Disrupts: A Study Of The Antecedents Of Phantom Vibrations, authored by Madeline Ortego and Stephanie Gapud of Spring Hill College.
Presentation Abstract: Covid-19 has accelerated the adoption of virtual teams, and work-at-home office arrangements. This makes employees depend so much on their smartphones. However, overuse of the device might have some negative psychological repercussions on the knowledge workers. Technology has made people more connected than ever and while this appears to be a good thing, it has not come without consequences. The rise of technology and in turn social media has created a dependency on cell phones in a large majority of the world’s population. This dependency has created new problems that could not have been predicated including that of phantom vibrations. From the results of a qualitative survey, it appears that these sensations are increasingly prominent in the general public. This is a preliminary study that sought to find how prevalent phantom vibrations sensations are among a wide range of mobile phone users and to identify its possible antecedents. Moreover, this study was conducted in response to the industry challenge posted on the Telanto site by a start-up company called Unpluq, as part of in-classroom experiential learning, in the Organizational Behavior class. SmartPLS 3.3 was used to analyze the proposed model. Results and implications are discussed.
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