TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This survey study among 111 teleworkers in a bank organization investigated the relationship between telework intensity and individual productivity, and whether this relationship was mediated by employees’ intrinsic motivation. Also the moderating role of office hours in the model’s associations was studied. Based on the Job Demands-Resources Model (Bakker & Demerouti, 2007) and the professional isolation literature (e.g., Golden, Vega, & Dino, 2008), we developed and tested a set of hypotheses. Partly in line with expectations, we found a direct curvilinear relationship between telework intensity and individual productivity, characterized by a slight, non-significant positive association at the low telework intensity end, and a significant negative association for the high telework intensity end. Strikingly, we neither found support for a mediating role of intrinsic motivation, nor for a moderation effect of the number of office hours in the relationship between telework intensity and intrinsic motivation. However, the direct relationship between telework intensity and individual productivity appeared to be moderated by the number of office hours. It was concluded that consequences for productivity are contingent on telework intensity, and that the number of office hours has an important impact on the consequences of different telework intensities. The study’s outcomes can inform management and HR practitioners to understand how to implement and appropriately make use of telework.
VL  - 16
SN  - 978-1-78560-303-7, 978-1-78560-302-0/1877-6361
DO  - 10.1108/S1877-636120160000016002
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1877-636120160000016002
AU  - Hoornweg Niels
AU  - Peters Pascale
AU  - van der Heijden Beatrice
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/01/01
TI  - Finding the Optimal Mix between Telework and Office Hours to Enhance Employee Productivity: A Study into the Relationship between Telework Intensity and Individual Productivity, with Mediation of Intrinsic Motivation and Moderation of Office Hours
T2  - New Ways of Working Practices
T3  - Advanced Series in Management
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 1
EP  - 28
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -