The relationship between whatsapp messenger acceptance and academician job performance at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Hajjah Laila Taib in Asajaya, Sarawak/ Siti Nurul Azffiqqa Mohd Zainodin

The purpose of this study is to seek the relationship between the WhatsApp Messenger applications acceptance and the high school academician’s job performance based on the construct presented by the UTAUT Model. WhatsApp Messenger is one of the common and most used smartphone applications by Malaysian. The use of WhatsApp Messenger application among the high school academicians in Sarawak has not yet, been researched thoroughly. 113 questionnaires were distributed to respondents who are academicians in Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Hajjah Laila Taib in Asajaya, Sarawak. The questionnaire consists of six (6) questions on demography and 16 questions that categorized by three independent variables and one dependent variable which uses the Likert Scale. The variables are some that were taken out from the UTAUT Model which are Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy and Facilitating Conditions for the independent variables and Job Performance is the dependent variable. The respondents were academicians who are familiar with using WhatsApp Messenger applications. The data was analysed using SPSS to get the descriptive statistics and to find the coefficient correlation. The findings showed that there was a positive significant relationship between Performance Expectancy and Effort Expectancy while Facilitating Conditions towards the academicians Job Performance by accepting the WhatsApp Messenger application into their work. The positive significant value for Performance Expectancy is r = .737 while for Effort Expectancy significant value is r = .708 and lastly the acceptable significant value, the Facilitating Conditions significant value is r = .624.