Articles & Research Abstracts
The good, the bad, and the unknown about telecommuting: Meta-analysis of psychological mediators and individual consequences
|Publication Date||November 2007|
|Author||Ravi S. Gajendran and David A. Harrison|
|Source||Journal of Applied Psychology|
|Source Type||Journal Article|
This article focuses on the positive and negative consequences of telecommuting, through the examination of 46 studies in natural settings. The results of meta-analyses revealed that telecommuting had small, though mostly positive effects on proximal outcomes, such as perceived autonomy and work-life conflict. In addition, telecommuting was found to have no negative effects on workplace relationships. Finally, telecommuting was found to have positive consequences for job satisfaction, performance, turnover intentions, and role stress. In addition, a primary linking mechanism between telecommuting and the distal outcomes appeared to come from autonomy.
|Keywords||telecommuting, distributed work, virtual work, meta-analysis|
Gajendran, R. S., & Harrison, D. A. (2007). The good, the bad, and the unknown about telecommuting: Meta-analysis of psychological mediators and individual consequences. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 1524-1541.