1. IntroductionBecause of the prosperity of information technology in recent years, almost every organization has adopted information technology to facilitate their organizational opera- tion. However, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become themost popular ones. Good use of ICTs can bring many benefits and conveniences to organizations. For example, ICTs can increase employees’ work efficiency, work flexibil- ity and productivity, allow employees to carry out multiple tasks simultaneously, and soon. Nevertheless, after an organization adopts ICTs, the organizational structure, organ- izational process, employees’ work characteristics, and the interactive relationship between employees and the organization changes (Ragu-Nathan, Tarafda, Ragu-Nathan, &Tu, 2008). Then, what great change would ICTs bring to employees and the whole organization?Some prior academic research has pointed out that although ICTs bring in manyconveniences, flexibility and productivity, certain characteristics of ICTs also bringabout some changes and even negative effects. ICT characteristics such as presenteeism (making individuals reachable at any time), fast-paced change (technology is being up-dated too quickly to manage), and information overload (individuals receive a lot of different information from different sources simultaneously) all bring lots of changesand negative effects to employees (Ayyagari, Grover, & Russell Purvis, 2011). There are1changes in employees’ working mode and real working hours, communication methods within the organization, and so on. What is more, there are some negative effects suchas making employees feel anxiety (Barbeite & Weiss, 2004), work stress, work dissatis- faction, work uncertainty, work insecurity, invasion, and work overload (Ayyagari et al.,2011) which may cause employees psychological and physiological ill effects, includingrejecting, being averse to, or having phobias about continuing to use ICTs (Hudiburg &Necessary, 1996). Therefore, in this research, we take ICT characteristics as one of ourconstructs.In recent literature, these kinds of phenomena (i.e., feeling anxiety, feeling morework stress, feeling work overload, and unwillingness to continue using ICTs) have been collectively called “technostress” (Clark & Kalin, 1996; Weil & Rosen, 1997;Brillhart, 2004). The term “technostress” was coined in the clinical psychology field in the 1980s, and is defined as a modern disease caused by one’s inability to cope or dealwith ICTs in a healthy manner (Brod, 1984).Moreover, recent academic literature has also indicated that technostress refers tothe stress caused by using ICTs at work. Moreover, there is another term, “stressor,” which refers to incidents which may bring stimuli to the individual facing them, result-ing in stress. (Cooper, Dewe, & O’Driscoll, 2001) In other words, a stressor is thesource of stress. Thus, in this paper, stressors are the incidents or stimuli which may2cause employees to experience technostress.Moreover, the whole transactional process is considered as technostress. Besides,stressors are the stimuli which an employee encounters, and strain is defined as an em- ployee’s psychological response to the stressors (Cooper et al., 2001). Therefore, afteremployees use ICTs at work, they may encounter numerous incidents and stimuli,“stressors”, which eventually result in strain. However, when strain reaches a certain state, it may influence employees’ productivity and performance, and may even influ-ence employees’ work satisfaction, commitment, or physical and mental health, making the employees unwilling or unable to continue working. Finally, this problem may de-crease an organization’s performance and profits. (Ragu-Nathan et al., 2008; Tarafdar, Tu, Ragu-Nathan, & Ragu-Nathan, 2010)Hence, the phenomenon of technostress becomes a critical problem, an issue that organizations should face and attempt to solve. Therefore, this paper develops a con- ceptual model, making everyone realize how technostress forms, what technostress may affect, what may influence technostress, and, the most important issue, how to cope with strain and eliminate the effects of technostress.In this paper, we want to continue the research regarding technostress. Some studies have researched the sources of technostress, or the effects that technostress maybring about for employees or organizations. These studies are an excellent base and3provide a reference for this research. However, few studies have thoroughly researched “how to cope with strain” from a comprehensive perspective; they usually focus on oneperspective only. For example, Shu, Tu and Wang (2011) adopted a non-technical sup- port perspective. They developed a conceptual model based on social cognitive theory.In their res