| Autor: |
Prengler, Melanie, Klotz, Anthony, Murphy, Chad Benjamin |
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Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings; 2021, Vol. 2021 Issue 1, p1-1, 1p |
| Abstrakt: |
The location-independent work arrangement--an arrangement in which employees both work and travel without a permanent home base--is becoming increasingly common. Despite its growing popularity, little research has examined the subjective experiences of location-independent employees, both in terms of how employees enter this work arrangement and how they experience it once they have done so. Using an inductive, qualitative approach, our grounded model suggests that the subjective experience of location independence is comprised of a two-phase process we call autonomy calibration. The first phase explains the motivation and process for becoming location-independent, showing that employees first increase their autonomy by liberating themselves from the structures of traditional work arrangements. The second phase explains the experiences of location-independent workers, showing that employees decrease their autonomy using self-imposed constraints. Our findings indicate that through this two-phase process of autonomy calibration, location-independent workers achieve what we call autonomy equilibrium, or a subjective sense of balance between autonomy and constraints. By developing a grounded model of both the subjective factors that motivate location independence as well as employees' subsequent experiences with that arrangement, our model contributes new theoretical insights to the literature on work arrangements and job design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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