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Making the Best of Remote Work Performance in the Time of COVID-19: Curing Tele-Pressure Through Online Time-Spatial Job Crafting and Leisure Crafting

28 Pages Posted: 13 Dec 2022 Publication Status: Preprint

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Cai Li

Jiangsu University

Majid Murad

Jiangsu University

Dr. Naveed Chaudhry

Department of Business Administration, University of the Punjab, Gujranwala Campus, Pakistan

Farhan Mirza

Universiti Teknologi Petronas - Department of Management & Humanities

Hira Waqar

University of the Punjab (PU) - Gujranwala Campus

Abstract

Remote work is becoming an inevitable practice in today’s business world which has transformed the whole business operations in times of covid-19. This study aims to explore the roles of online time spatial job crafting and leisure crafting for dealing with tele-pressure and techno-self efficacy for improving remote work performance. Data is gathered through an online survey of 486 employees working in the IT sector of Pakistan. Specifically, it is made sure that these employees work for their organizations through online work channels during COVID-19. The partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique is used to analyze the hypothesis relationships. The results show that online job crafting and leisure crafting positively and significantly influence remote work performance. Moreover, findings indicate that tele-pressure partially mediates the relationship between online time job crafting and leisure crafting on remote work performance. Results also show that techno-self efficacy positively moderates the relationship between online time job crafting and leisure crafting on tele-pressure. The findings provide insightful suggestions for building a collaborative remote workplace at the individual and collective level to implement job crafting interventions and enrich workers' personal and organizational resources, which is helpful to cope with the current challenges.

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Funding Information: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

Declaration of Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Ethics Approval Statement: This study engaged human participants and approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of the Punjab, Gujranwala Campus province Punjab, Pakistan.

Keywords: remote work performance, Covid-19, online time-spatial job crafting, tele-pressure, techno-self efficacy, leisure crafting, IT sector, Pakistan

Suggested Citation

Li, Cai and Murad, Majid and Chaudhry, Dr. Naveed Iqbal and Mirza, Farhan and Waqar, Hira, Making the Best of Remote Work Performance in the Time of COVID-19: Curing Tele-Pressure Through Online Time-Spatial Job Crafting and Leisure Crafting. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4297899 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4297899

Cai Li

Jiangsu University ( email )

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Majid Murad (Contact Author)

Jiangsu University ( email )

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Dr. Naveed Iqbal Chaudhry

Department of Business Administration, University of the Punjab, Gujranwala Campus, Pakistan ( email )

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Farhan Mirza

Universiti Teknologi Petronas - Department of Management & Humanities ( email )

Hira Waqar

University of the Punjab (PU) - Gujranwala Campus ( email )

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