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"Don't Stop the Music," Please: The Relationship between Music Use at Work, Satisfaction, and Performance
Domenico Sanseverino1, Andrea Caputo1, Claudio Giovanni Cortese1
1Department of Psychology, University of Turin, 10124 Turin, TO, Italy.
Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
|January 20, 2023
Summary
Music use in the workplace can boost job satisfaction and performance when used emotionally. However, cognitive or background music does not significantly impact these outcomes.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Psychology
- Music Psychology
Background:
- Limited understanding of music's impact on workplace perceptions.
- Need for research on specific music uses (emotional, cognitive, background).
Purpose of the Study:
- Examine effects of emotional, cognitive, and background music on job satisfaction and performance.
- Investigate music's role in workplace well-being and productivity.
Main Methods:
- Structural equation modeling analysis.
- Survey of 244 diverse workers on music use, job satisfaction, and performance.
Main Results:
- Emotional music use positively impacts performance, mediated by job satisfaction.
- Cognitive music use shows no significant effect on satisfaction or performance.
- Background music use negatively affects job satisfaction, with no impact on performance.
Conclusions:
- Strategic emotional music use can be a beneficial workplace practice.
- Further research should explore music as a workplace resource considering individual and contextual factors.
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