Significant household factors that influence an IT employees’ job effectiveness while on work from home
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to find out the significant factor/s relating to an information technology (IT) employee’s household that determines the job effectiveness of an employee. Design/methodology/approach: The approach involves surveying IT employees from across levels of work-experience, companies and cities on household factors that affect their job effectiveness while they work from home and uses discriminant analysis to find out important factor/s that determines if an employee’s job effectiveness remains constant or is better at the workplace that at home. Findings: The number of elderly staying in the house, age of the eldest member of the household, observable power cuts at home and number of cars owned by individuals were found to be significant factors affecting an IT employees’ job effectiveness. Originality/value: The study targets a very niche area of the impact of household factors on an IT employee. The findings of this research enable IT organizations from India with insights and enable them to come up with innovative interventions to manage employees on a personalized basis to improve an employees’ job effectiveness and drive organizational effectiveness on a whole, during and post the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2020
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Authors: | Sridhar, Vivek ; Bhattacharya, Sanjay |
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International Journal of Innovation Science. - Emerald, ISSN 1757-2223, ZDB-ID 2504656-1. - Vol. 13.2020, 1 (30.12.), p. 105-117
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Emerald |
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