SOC356Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Job Satisfaction, Job Performance, Organizational Commitment
Document Summary
Icts, and social capital for job decision latitude. (wenhong chen and steve mcdonald) Ict have accelerated the pace of the transformation, prolonging long after work hours into the private hours as well: shifting the spatial and temporal boundaries between public and private sphere. Almost two thirds 64% of americans are workers who used the. Job decision latitude is a integral part of job quality, a multi dimensional construct that includes how workers get compensated as well as when, where, and how work gets done. Telework/telecommuting are work arrangements involving regularly working from home or offsite rather than entirely from a fixed site. 1/10 american workers work at least 1 day at home. Empirical work finds that telework increases job satisfaction and: pros, cons: performance. However, these works are often uncompensated, with long working hours. It decreases support and feedback at work -> feelings of isolation due to lack of face-to-face communication with colleagues.
