The effects of workload, management support and flexibility while working from home on the workers’ productivity

Covid-19 assaults have changed the working practices and cultures in many companies in Malaysia. The work from home (WFH) phenomenon is one of the initiatives that has been implemented by many countries around the world as attempts to avoid the spread of Covid-19, and it has impacted workers' p...

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Main Author:	Teh Nurul Afiza, Abdul Jalil
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng eng
Published:	2020
Subjects:	HF5549-5549.5 Personnel Management Employment
Online Access:	https://etd.uum.edu.my/9271/1/s826192_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9271/2/s826192_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9271/3/s826192_references.docx
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spelling	my-uum-etd.92712022-04-17T02:45:25Z The effects of workload, management support and flexibility while working from home on the workers’ productivity 2020 Teh Nurul Afiza, Abdul Jalil Abd Hamid, Rawiyah Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business School of Business Management HF5549-5549.5 Personnel Management. Employment Covid-19 assaults have changed the working practices and cultures in many companies in Malaysia. The work from home (WFH) phenomenon is one of the initiatives that has been implemented by many countries around the world as attempts to avoid the spread of Covid-19, and it has impacted workers' productivity. The purpose of this study is to examine whether the three factors, which are workload, management support, and flexibility, affect the workers' productivity while working from home during the Covid-19 outbreak. The target respondents for this study are from public and private sector companies located in Kuala Lumpur. The researcher used a quantitative approach to measuring the independent and dependent variables. The researcher distributed and collected the questionnaires thru several platforms such as hard copy and soft copy via Google Form, E-mail, Facebook, and WhatsApp due to the CMCO period. The total data that have been used to analyze in this study is 384 data, as suggested by Krejcie and Morgan (1970). This study used Statistical Packages of Social Sciences (SPSS) in analyzing the data. The findings of this study show that management support and flexibility while working from home affect the workers' productivity. However, workload while working from home does not affect the workers' productivity during the implementation of MCO by the Malaysian government. This study provided theoretical and practical implications. 2020 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/9271/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/9271/1/s826192_01.pdf text eng 2023-12-04 staffonly https://etd.uum.edu.my/9271/2/s826192_02.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/9271/3/s826192_references.docx text eng public other masters Universiti Utara Malaysia
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advisor	Abd Hamid, Rawiyah
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description	Covid-19 assaults have changed the working practices and cultures in many companies in Malaysia. The work from home (WFH) phenomenon is one of the initiatives that has been implemented by many countries around the world as attempts to avoid the spread of Covid-19, and it has impacted workers' productivity. The purpose of this study is to examine whether the three factors, which are workload, management support, and flexibility, affect the workers' productivity while working from home during the Covid-19 outbreak. The target respondents for this study are from public and private sector companies located in Kuala Lumpur. The researcher used a quantitative approach to measuring the independent and dependent variables. The researcher distributed and collected the questionnaires thru several platforms such as hard copy and soft copy via Google Form, E-mail, Facebook, and WhatsApp due to the CMCO period. The total data that have been used to analyze in this study is 384 data, as suggested by Krejcie and Morgan (1970). This study used Statistical Packages of Social Sciences (SPSS) in analyzing the data. The findings of this study show that management support and flexibility while working from home affect the workers' productivity. However, workload while working from home does not affect the workers' productivity during the implementation of MCO by the Malaysian government. This study provided theoretical and practical implications.
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author	Teh Nurul Afiza, Abdul Jalil
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title	The effects of workload, management support and flexibility while working from home on the workers’ productivity
title_short	The effects of workload, management support and flexibility while working from home on the workers’ productivity
title_full	The effects of workload, management support and flexibility while working from home on the workers’ productivity
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