The role of academics’ socio-demographic characteristics as moderating in WFH productivity: Empirical evidence

Q1 Decision Sciences

Uncertain Supply Chain Management Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.5267/j.uscm.2023.3.016

R. Al-Dmour, Hani Al-Dmour, A. Al-Dmour, L. Abualigah

{"title":"The role of academics’ socio-demographic characteristics as moderating in WFH productivity: Empirical evidence","authors":"R. Al-Dmour, Hani Al-Dmour, A. Al-Dmour, L. Abualigah","doi":"10.5267/j.uscm.2023.3.016","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The present study examines the faculty staff’s socio-demographic factors (i.e., gender, academic ranking, and experience) as moderating variables on the relationship between the four interrelated factors (organizational, individual, technological, and client engagement) and their productivity (performance) during the Covid‐19 pandemic. A conceptual framework was developed by integrating several relevant studies in the field of Work from Home (WFH) productivity. To end this, we involved (n=388) academic staff working from home during the Covid-19 crisis to test the hypotheses in the higher education context. The findings showed that the academics’ WFH productivity was significantly associated with the four interrelated factors (organizational, individual, technological, and client-related factors) either collectively or individually, and the most important one was the individual-related factors. The moderation analysis reveals that the effect of the socio-demographic characteristics (gender, academic ranking, and experience) on WFH productivity was varied. Surprisingly, the study findings provided evidence for the first time that the client’s engagement (student) factor, which has not been studied before, was found as one of the main determinant factors of WFH productivity during the Covid-19 crisis.","PeriodicalId":23429,"journal":{"name":"Uncertain Supply Chain Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Uncertain Supply Chain Management","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5267/j.uscm.2023.3.016","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Decision Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

The present study examines the faculty staff’s socio-demographic factors (i.e., gender, academic ranking, and experience) as moderating variables on the relationship between the four interrelated factors (organizational, individual, technological, and client engagement) and their productivity (performance) during the Covid‐19 pandemic. A conceptual framework was developed by integrating several relevant studies in the field of Work from Home (WFH) productivity. To end this, we involved (n=388) academic staff working from home during the Covid-19 crisis to test the hypotheses in the higher education context. The findings showed that the academics’ WFH productivity was significantly associated with the four interrelated factors (organizational, individual, technological, and client-related factors) either collectively or individually, and the most important one was the individual-related factors. The moderation analysis reveals that the effect of the socio-demographic characteristics (gender, academic ranking, and experience) on WFH productivity was varied. Surprisingly, the study findings provided evidence for the first time that the client’s engagement (student) factor, which has not been studied before, was found as one of the main determinant factors of WFH productivity during the Covid-19 crisis.

查看原文本刊更多论文

学者的社会人口特征在WFH生产率中的调节作用:经验证据

本研究考察了教职员工的社会人口因素(即性别、学术排名和经验)作为四个相关因素(组织、个人、技术和客户参与度)与他们在Covid - 19大流行期间的生产力(绩效)之间关系的调节变量。通过整合在家工作(WFH)生产力领域的几项相关研究，形成了一个概念性框架。为此，我们招募了(n=388)在Covid-19危机期间在家工作的学术人员，以检验高等教育背景下的假设。研究结果表明，学者的工作效率与组织、个人、技术和客户相关的四个相关因素(组织、个人、技术和客户相关因素)整体或单独存在显著的相关关系，其中以个人相关因素最为重要。适度性分析表明，社会人口特征(性别、学术排名和经验)对WFH生产率的影响是不同的。令人惊讶的是，研究结果首次提供了证据，证明客户的参与(学生)因素是新冠肺炎危机期间WFH生产力的主要决定因素之一，而这一因素此前从未被研究过。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Uncertain Supply Chain Management Decision Sciences-Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

CiteScore

5.60

自引率

0.00%

发文量

112

期刊介绍： Supply chain management (SCM) plays an essential role in managing the movement of raw materials into an organization, certain issues of the internal processing of materials into finished goods, and the movement of finished products out of the organization for end-consumer delivery. The goal of SCM is to improve trust and collaboration among supply chain partners and to improve inventory visibility. However, many SCM problems deal with uncertain events such as uncertainty in demand, supply, quality, price, etc. This forum is dedicated to all scholars who wish to share their ideas about uncertainty in SCM problems. Uncertain supply chain management is a quarterly publication dedicated to all scientists in all over the world who wish to share their experiences and knowledge in this field. Our policy is to perform a peer review on all submitted articles and publishes original and high quality articles.