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- Title
Work From Home (WFH) Changes the Value of Autonomy.
- Authors
Yundong Huang
- Abstract
Companies widely adopted work from home (WFH) during the COVID-19 pandemic. When working from home, employees experience a significant degree of work freedom, also known as job autonomy. This small-sample study explored an interesting phenomenon: after experiencing the freedom of work during the pandemic, people adapted to it and did not want to return. Hence, job autonomy became a more critical part of work effort. Three hundred forty-nine survey responses in the United States were collected to explore the relationship between work motivation, job autonomy, and work effort before and during work from home (WFH) periods. In order to analyze this non-normally distributed small sample more effectively, a statistical technique called partial least squares (PLS) was employed within the framework of structural equation modeling (SEM). This study found that autonomy became more effective in terms of improving people's work motivation and work effort when WFH than when working from the office (WFO). Intrinsic motivation and identified regulation were also more effective when WFH than WFO. However, external regulation became less effective even though external regulation is the primary motivator in both situations. It is the first article to compare the value of autonomy before and after the COVID-19 WFH phenomena. It also explored an untouched topic in motivation study, in which the level of job autonomy may change one's causality orientation.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TELECOMMUTING; COVID-19 pandemic; AUTONOMY (Psychology); EMPLOYEE motivation; INTRINSIC motivation; STRUCTURAL equation modeling
- Publication
Organization Development Journal, 2024, Vol 42, Issue 2, p91
- ISSN
0889-6402
- Publication type
Article