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More Than Background Sound: Investigating Impact of Work-Related Podcasts on Employee Wellbeing

More Than Background Sound: Investigating Impact of Work-Related Podcasts on Employee Wellbeing
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Author(s): Berivan Tatar (Gebze Technical University, Turkey)
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 28
Source title: Practices, Challenges, and Deterrents in Workplace Wellbeing: Strategies for Building Resilient and Thriving Workplaces
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Banya Barua (RMIT University, Australia & Esse Management Consultants Pty. Ltd., Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-6079-8.ch015

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Abstract

As an intriguing concept, podcasts have been increasingly popular and one of the fastest-growing media in recent decades. While podcast listening has attracted the growing attention of scholars from a variety of disciplines, no studies to date have explored podcast listening in management literature. In this context, the current study aims to investigate the motivations and consequences of work-related podcast listening in terms of employee wellbeing. Data were collected from 12 academicians from a variety of fields via a semi-structured interview, and thematic analysis was performed using MAXQDA software. The current study demonstrated that (1) academicians have different podcast listening habits in terms of gender, generation, and position; (2) academicians have motives for work-related podcast listening, including information-related motivation, creativity-related motivation, and relaxation-related motivation; and (3) work-related podcast listening is related to different aspects of employee wellbeing, such as hedonic wellbeing, social wellbeing, and eudaimonic wellbeing.

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