别无选择?当工作灵活性改善或损害工作-生活结果时

IF 9.3 1区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS
Brandon W. Smit, Scott L. Boyar, C. Maertz
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工作灵活性反映了员工对在何处和/或何时完成任务的自由裁量权,它已成为一种普遍的做法,旨在减轻压力和加强工作与生活的平衡。尽管这种做法很受欢迎,但人们对其潜在的弊端却知之甚少。通过利用决策的双重过程模型对资源保护理论进行扩展,我们建立并检验了一个理论模型,该模型展示了感知灵活性如何以及对谁而言会改善或损害工作与生活的结果。在利用三波收集的面板数据进行的两项研究中,我们证明了计划是一种关键的中介机制,它使个人能够将灵活性所提供的自由裁量权转化为更好的工作与生活平衡,并减少疲惫感。此外,我们还发现,那些对未来时间关注度较低的人(他们默认情况下并不倾向于制定计划)的计划性会受到环境不连续性(如常规中断)的强烈影响。具体来说,当个人经历不连续性时,灵活性会增加计划性,而在稳定和熟悉的环境中,灵活性会减少个人的计划性,这最终会损害工作与生活的结果。我们的模型提供了一个有用的理论视角,帮助我们理解个体如何管理(有时也会管理不善)灵活性所提供的更大自由裁量权。
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Spoiled for Choice? When Work Flexibility Improves or Impairs Work–Life Outcomes
Work flexibility, which reflects employee discretion over where and/or when they complete tasks, has become a pervasive practice designed to reduce stress and enhance work–life balance. Despite its popularity, relatively little is known about its potential drawbacks. Through extending conservation of resources theory using dual process models of decision-making, we develop and test a theoretical model that demonstrates how and for whom perceived flexibility can improve or impair work-life outcomes. Across two studies utilizing panel data collected in three waves, we demonstrate that planning is a key mediating mechanism that allows individuals to translate the discretion afforded by flexibility into enhanced work-life balance and reduced exhaustion. Furthermore, we find that planning among those with a low future temporal focus, who are not inclined to plan by default, was strongly influenced by environmental discontinuities (e.g., disruptions to routines). Specifically, while flexibility increased planning when individuals experienced discontinuities, flexibility reduced planning among individuals in stable and familiar circumstances, which ultimately impaired work-life outcomes. Our model offers a useful theoretical lens to understand how individuals manage, and occasionally mismanage, the expanded discretion offered by flexibility.
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Management (JOM) aims to publish rigorous empirical and theoretical research articles that significantly contribute to the field of management. It is particularly interested in papers that have a strong impact on the overall management discipline. JOM also encourages the submission of novel ideas and fresh perspectives on existing research. The journal covers a wide range of areas, including business strategy and policy, organizational behavior, human resource management, organizational theory, entrepreneurship, and research methods. It provides a platform for scholars to present their work on these topics and fosters intellectual discussion and exchange in these areas.
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