IT ROAD WARRIORS: BALANCING WORK--FAMILY CONFLICT, JOB AUTONOMY, AND WORK OVERLOAD TO MITIGATE TURNOVER INTENTIONS.

@article{2396335020070301, abstract = {This study examines the antecedents of turnover intention among information technology road warriors. Road warriors are IT professionals who spend most of their workweek away from home at a client site. Building on Moore's (2000) work on turnover intention, this article develops and tests a model that is context-specific to the road warrior situation. The model highlights the effects of work--family conflict and job autonomy, factors especially applicable to the road warrior's circumstances. Data were gathered from a company in the computer and software services industry. This study provides empirical evidence for the effects of work--family conflict, perceived work overload, fairness of rewards, and job autonomy on organizational commitment and work exhaustion for road warriors. The results suggest that work--family conflict is a key source of stress among IT road warriors because they have to juggle family and job duties as they work at distant client sites during the week. These}, author = {Ahuja, Manju K. and Chudoba, Katherine M. and Kacmar, Charles J. and Mcknight, Harrison D. and George, Joey F. }, citeulike-article-id = {2207692}, journal = {MIS Quarterly}, keywords = {context, ict, is, misq, mobile\_work, mobility, organizations, pim}, number = {1}, posted-at = {2008-01-08 13:29:27}, priority = {0}, title = {IT ROAD WARRIORS: BALANCING WORK--FAMILY CONFLICT, JOB AUTONOMY, AND WORK OVERLOAD TO MITIGATE TURNOVER INTENTIONS.}, url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=a2h\&AN=23963350\&site=ehost-live\&scope=site}, volume = {31}, year = {20070301} }

TY - JOUR ID - 2396335020070301 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2207692 N2 - This study examines the antecedents of turnover intention among information technology road warriors. Road warriors are IT professionals who spend most of their workweek away from home at a client site. Building on Moore's (2000) work on turnover intention, this article develops and tests a model that is context-specific to the road warrior situation. The model highlights the effects of work--family conflict and job autonomy, factors especially applicable to the road warrior's circumstances. Data were gathered from a company in the computer and software services industry. This study provides empirical evidence for the effects of work--family conflict, perceived work overload, fairness of rewards, and job autonomy on organizational commitment and work exhaustion for road warriors. The results suggest that work--family conflict is a key source of stress among IT road warriors because they have to juggle family and job duties as they work at distant client sites during the week. These IS - 1 JF - MIS Quarterly TI - IT ROAD WARRIORS: BALANCING WORK--FAMILY CONFLICT, JOB AUTONOMY, AND WORK OVERLOAD TO MITIGATE TURNOVER INTENTIONS. VL - 31 KW - context KW - ict KW - is KW - misq KW - mobile_work KW - mobility KW - organizations KW - pim AU - Ahuja, Manju AU - Chudoba, Katherine AU - Kacmar, Charles AU - Mcknight, Harrison AU - George, Joey PY - 20070301/// UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a2h&AN=23963350&site=ehost-live&scope=site ER -