Organizational Benefits of Commuting Support: The Impact of Flexible Working Hours on Employees’ OCB through Commuting Control

IF 2.8 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2024-07-06 DOI:10.1007/s11205-024-03378-9

Zhiyi Gan, Jinhua Gan, Zhiqing E. Zhou, Hanying Tang

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Flexible working hours has many benefits in improving employee’s in-role performance, and thus become more popular in modern cities. However, we knew little about the relationship between flexible working hours and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). To clarify the question, we constructed a moderated-mediation model to examine the mechanism of commuting control. A total of 284 full-time employees took part in this study. We found that: (1) Employees with flexible working hours had higher levels of commuting control; (2) Then, higher levels of commuting control predicted higher levels of OCB; (3) Commuting control fully meditated the association between flexible working hours and employees’ OCB; (4) Commuting control and road unimpeded interaction to influence OCB. That is, the relationship between commuting control and OCB was stronger when roads were clear. These results not only provide a new explanation of the impact of flexible working hours on commuting control and OCB, but also help to broaden commuting research. These findings additionally have implications for the government and organizations.

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通勤支持的组织效益：灵活工作时间通过通勤控制对员工 OCB 的影响

灵活的工作时间对提高员工的角色绩效有很多好处，因此在现代城市中越来越受欢迎。然而，我们对弹性工时与组织公民行为（OCB）之间的关系知之甚少。为了澄清这个问题，我们构建了一个中介模型来研究通勤控制的机制。共有 284 名全职员工参与了这项研究。我们发现(1）灵活工作时间的员工具有更高的通勤控制水平；（2）那么，更高的通勤控制水平预测了更高的OCB水平；（3）通勤控制完全调解了灵活工作时间与员工OCB之间的关联；（4）通勤控制与道路无障碍互动影响OCB。也就是说，在道路畅通的情况下，通勤控制与 OCB 的关系更加密切。这些结果不仅为灵活工作时间对通勤控制和职业行为改善的影响提供了新的解释，而且有助于拓宽通勤研究的范围。此外，这些研究结果还对政府和组织机构具有启示意义。

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Social Indicators Research Multiple-

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6.30

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6.50%

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174

期刊介绍： Since its foundation in 1974, Social Indicators Research has become the leading journal on problems related to the measurement of all aspects of the quality of life. The journal continues to publish results of research on all aspects of the quality of life and includes studies that reflect developments in the field. It devotes special attention to studies on such topics as sustainability of quality of life, sustainable development, and the relationship between quality of life and sustainability. The topics represented in the journal cover and involve a variety of segmentations, such as social groups, spatial and temporal coordinates, population composition, and life domains. The journal presents empirical, philosophical and methodological studies that cover the entire spectrum of society and are devoted to giving evidences through indicators. It considers indicators in their different typologies, and gives special attention to indicators that are able to meet the need of understanding social realities and phenomena that are increasingly more complex, interrelated, interacted and dynamical. In addition, it presents studies aimed at defining new approaches in constructing indicators.