Managerial telework allowance decisions – a vignette study among German managers
| Autor: | Steven Poelmans, Barbara Beham, Andreas Baierl |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economics business.industry Strategy and Management Allowance (money) Organizational culture Public relations language.human_language German Vignette Management of Technology and Innovation Industrial relations Organizational context language Business and International Management business |
| Zdroj: | International journal of human resource management |
| ISSN: | 1466-4399 0958-5192 |
| Popis: | Managers play an important role in the implementation of telework in organizations since they frequently have final approval over employees' requests for telework arrangements. Drawing upon March's (1994) dual-logic theory of decision making, the study examines antecedents of managers' responses to employees' requests for telework. Using a vignette study with a balanced experimental design, we investigated the impact of person-related, task-related and organizational context factors on managerial telework allowance decisions in German organizations. Several person- and task-related factors were found to be significantly related to managers' telework allowance decisions. Organizational context factors, such as a family-supportive organizational culture and formal policies were found to either directly or indirectly influence managers' responses to employees' requests for telework. More specifically, formal telework policies were important in stimulating favorable managerial telework allowance decisions whe... |
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