The IRMA Community
Newsletters
Research IRM
Click a keyword to search titles using our InfoSci-OnDemand powered search:
|
Home-Based Telecommuting: Technology's Role
|
|
Author(s): Ellen Baker (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia), Gayle C. Avery (Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australia)and John Crawford (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 23
Source title:
Innovative Technologies for Information Resources Management
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-570-2.ch020
Purchase
|
Abstract
This chapter examines the role of technology in home-based telecommuting (HBT), and the implications of this role for organizational IT departments and for managers of telecommuting employees. Specifically, it addresses the question: Does technology both facilitate and hinder home-based telecommuting? Although technology enables HBT, it has also been blamed for HBT’s slow growth. To clarify the role that technology currently plays when employees telecommute, we describe a recent study that investigated the relationship between different forms of organizational support (classified as technology-related, somewhat technology-related and non-technological) and employees’ reactions to HBT. Two technology- related support variables and manager’s trust (a non-technological support) were found to have broad impact on employees’ reactions to HBT; so, while technology plays a crucial role and thus could be a major factor in HBT’s slow growth, we argue that HBT is better understood within a multi-factor rather than a single-factor framework. Other implications are that organizations should emphasize providing IT support and appropriate technology for telecommuters, as well as HBT-related training for non-telecommuting co-workers and managers of the telecommuters.
Related Content
|
Tereza Raquel Merlo, Nayana Madali M. Pampapura, Jason M. Merlo.
© 2024.
14 pages.
|
|
Kris Swen Helge.
© 2024.
9 pages.
|
|
Ahmad Tasnim Siddiqui, Gulshaira Banu Jahangeer, Amjath Fareeth Basha.
© 2024.
12 pages.
|
|
Jennie Lee Khun.
© 2024.
19 pages.
|
|
Tereza Raquel Merlo.
© 2024.
19 pages.
|
|
Akash Bag, Paridhi Sharma, Pranjal Khare, Souvik Roy.
© 2024.
31 pages.
|
|
Akash Bag, Upasana Khattri, Aditya Agrawal, Souvik Roy.
© 2024.
28 pages.
|
|
|