The Influence of Teleworking on Performance and Employees’ Counterproductive Behaviour.
The new social context brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic has generated significant changes in the work of employees. Social distancing and isolation have imposed the adoption of teleworking in most cases. Teleworking existed before the COVID-19 pandemic, and was considered a facilitator of j...
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| author | Marcela-Sefora Nemțeanu Dan-Cristian Dabija Liana Stanca |
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| description | The new social context brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic has generated significant
changes in the work of employees. Social distancing and isolation have imposed the adoption
of teleworking in most cases. Teleworking existed before the COVID-19 pandemic, and was
considered a facilitator of job flexibility, thus increasing employees’ autonomy in their work.
This paper aims to identify how teleworking, through its dimensions (teleworking
autonomy and interaction reduction) influences self-regulatory capacity, professional
isolation, task performance, contextual performance, and counterproductive work
behaviours. The data were collected from 641 respondents, namely Romanian employees,
who operated by teleworking. The theoretical model and relation between the constructs
were tested with the aid of structural equation modelling in SmartPLS. The interaction
reduction in the context of teleworking significantly, positively, and strongly influences
professional isolation, and to a lesser extent, but significantly nonetheless,
counterproductive work behaviour and employee self-regulatory capacity.
The research originality lies in expanding the theoretical contributions regarding
teleworking theory by proposing a new teleworking scale based on teleworking autonomy
and interaction reduction. It also contributes to the development of Self-regulatory Theory
and Social Exchange Theory. From a managerial perspective, it highlights the importance
of the dimensions of teleworking for the employer, as well as the effects of teleworking on
task performance and contextual performance in the COVID-19 pandemic, offering helpful
solutions to employers in the identification of viable solutions for the improvement of
employee outcomes, and for the reduction of counterproductive work behaviour |
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| spelling | doaj.art-61d52f9e37e74b4e825dbf8507ef5c532022-12-22T04:38:33ZengAcademy of Economic Studies of BucharestAmfiteatru Economic1582-91462247-91042021-08-01235860161910.24818/EA/2021/58/601The Influence of Teleworking on Performance and Employees’ Counterproductive Behaviour.Marcela-Sefora Nemțeanu0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7831-9041Dan-Cristian Dabija1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8265-175XLiana Stanca2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2453-1511Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaBabeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaBabeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaThe new social context brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic has generated significant changes in the work of employees. Social distancing and isolation have imposed the adoption of teleworking in most cases. Teleworking existed before the COVID-19 pandemic, and was considered a facilitator of job flexibility, thus increasing employees’ autonomy in their work. This paper aims to identify how teleworking, through its dimensions (teleworking autonomy and interaction reduction) influences self-regulatory capacity, professional isolation, task performance, contextual performance, and counterproductive work behaviours. The data were collected from 641 respondents, namely Romanian employees, who operated by teleworking. The theoretical model and relation between the constructs were tested with the aid of structural equation modelling in SmartPLS. The interaction reduction in the context of teleworking significantly, positively, and strongly influences professional isolation, and to a lesser extent, but significantly nonetheless, counterproductive work behaviour and employee self-regulatory capacity. The research originality lies in expanding the theoretical contributions regarding teleworking theory by proposing a new teleworking scale based on teleworking autonomy and interaction reduction. It also contributes to the development of Self-regulatory Theory and Social Exchange Theory. From a managerial perspective, it highlights the importance of the dimensions of teleworking for the employer, as well as the effects of teleworking on task performance and contextual performance in the COVID-19 pandemic, offering helpful solutions to employers in the identification of viable solutions for the improvement of employee outcomes, and for the reduction of counterproductive work behaviourhttps://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/temp/Article_3024.pdfteleworkingteleworking scaleteleworking autonomyinteraction reductionjob performancetask performancecontextual performancecounterproductive work behaviourprofessional isolationself-regulatory capacityself-regulatory theorysocial exchange theorycovid-19. |
| spellingShingle | Marcela-Sefora Nemțeanu Dan-Cristian Dabija Liana Stanca The Influence of Teleworking on Performance and Employees’ Counterproductive Behaviour. Amfiteatru Economic teleworking teleworking scale teleworking autonomy interaction reduction job performance task performance contextual performance counterproductive work behaviour professional isolation self-regulatory capacity self-regulatory theory social exchange theory covid-19. |
| title | The Influence of Teleworking on Performance and Employees’ Counterproductive Behaviour. |
| title_full | The Influence of Teleworking on Performance and Employees’ Counterproductive Behaviour. |
| title_fullStr | The Influence of Teleworking on Performance and Employees’ Counterproductive Behaviour. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Influence of Teleworking on Performance and Employees’ Counterproductive Behaviour. |
| title_short | The Influence of Teleworking on Performance and Employees’ Counterproductive Behaviour. |
| title_sort | influence of teleworking on performance and employees counterproductive behaviour |
| topic | teleworking teleworking scale teleworking autonomy interaction reduction job performance task performance contextual performance counterproductive work behaviour professional isolation self-regulatory capacity self-regulatory theory social exchange theory covid-19. |
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