Building a remote career: Navigating work-life interface from role engagement to work passion while working from home

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IIMB Management Review Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI:10.1016/j.iimb.2025.100573

Munmun Goswami , Anita Sarkar , Lalatendu Kesari Jena , Duraipandian Israel

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Abstract

Drawing from the theoretical foundations of the conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989, 2002), work-family enrichment theory (Greenhaus & Powell, 2006), and the work-home resources model (ten Brummelhuis & Bakker, 2012), we investigate the interplay of role engagement and work passion that shapes the remote work experience. Using structural equation modelling, we analysed data collected from 539 working adults working-from-home in India. Notably, we observed a positive association between engagement in family roles and positive affect, which subsequently fosters work engagement. When channelled through harmonious work passion, this work engagement contributes to increased work-life enrichment. Conversely, when filtered through obsessive work passion, it tends to amplify work-life conflict. Furthermore, our study highlights the significant influence of external factors, such as work-supportive family behaviour, family-supportive supervisor behaviour, age, income, and family type, on the model’s dynamics. By adopting a comprehensive approach, our study helps gain insights into the intricate mechanisms that govern the work-life interface of an individual when pursuing a remote career from home.

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建立远程职业：在家工作时，从角色投入到工作激情，引导工作-生活界面

借鉴了资源节约理论（Hobfoll, 1989, 2002）、工作-家庭富集理论(Greenhaus &；Powell, 2006)，以及工作家庭资源模型(10 Brummelhuis &；Bakker, 2012)，我们研究了塑造远程工作体验的角色投入和工作激情的相互作用。使用结构方程模型，我们分析了从印度539名在家工作的成年人收集的数据。值得注意的是，我们观察到家庭角色的投入与积极影响之间存在正相关，积极影响随后会促进工作投入。当通过和谐的工作激情引导时，这种工作投入有助于增加工作与生活的丰富性。相反，当被过度的工作激情过滤后，它往往会放大工作与生活的冲突。此外，我们的研究强调了外部因素，如工作支持型家庭行为、家庭支持型主管行为、年龄、收入和家庭类型，对模型动态的显著影响。通过采用一种综合的方法，我们的研究有助于深入了解当一个人在家从事远程职业时，控制其工作与生活界面的复杂机制。

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68 days

期刊介绍： IIMB Management Review (IMR) is a quarterly journal brought out by the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Addressed to management practitioners, researchers and academics, IMR aims to engage rigorously with practices, concepts and ideas in the field of management, with an emphasis on providing managerial insights, in a reader friendly format. To this end IMR invites manuscripts that provide novel managerial insights in any of the core business functions. The manuscript should be rigorous, that is, the findings should be supported by either empirical data or a well-justified theoretical model, and well written. While these two requirements are necessary for acceptance, they do not guarantee acceptance. The sole criterion for publication is contribution to the extant management literature.Although all manuscripts are welcome, our special emphasis is on papers that focus on emerging economies throughout the world. Such papers may either improve our understanding of markets in such economies through novel analyses or build models by taking into account the special characteristics of such economies to provide guidance to managers.