Giauque, D.; Cornu, F.; Renard, K.; Emery, Y. Opportunity to Use New Ways of Working: Do Sectors and Organizational Characteristics Shape Employee Perceptions? Sustainability2023, 15, 11167.
Giauque, D.; Cornu, F.; Renard, K.; Emery, Y. Opportunity to Use New Ways of Working: Do Sectors and Organizational Characteristics Shape Employee Perceptions? Sustainability 2023, 15, 11167.
Giauque, D.; Cornu, F.; Renard, K.; Emery, Y. Opportunity to Use New Ways of Working: Do Sectors and Organizational Characteristics Shape Employee Perceptions? Sustainability2023, 15, 11167.
Giauque, D.; Cornu, F.; Renard, K.; Emery, Y. Opportunity to Use New Ways of Working: Do Sectors and Organizational Characteristics Shape Employee Perceptions? Sustainability 2023, 15, 11167.
Abstract
The diffusion of New Ways of Working (NWW) is an important trend in contemporary organi-zations. Many related empirical studies have been produced, but none have focused on differences in employees’ perceptions of the opportunity to use NWW according to organization sector (pri-vate, semi-public, public). This study, based on neoinstituionalism and HR attributions theory, investigated these differences via a survey (n=2693) of employees at private (n=358), semi-public (n=204), and public (n=2131) organizations. The results show that public employees reported less opportunity to use NWW than their private and semi-public counterparts. Furthermore, private sector employees were more likely to attribute well-being and productivity benefits to NWW than their public sector and semi-public counterparts. We also show that institutional and organiza-tional variables specific to the characteristics of organizations in the three sectors partially ex-plain the degree of perceptions with respect to the opportunity to use NWW.
Keywords
new ways of working; sector comparison; job goal clarity; red tape; autonomy; NWW-attribution
Subject
Business, Economics and Management, Human Resources and Organizations
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