Working from home during the COVID-19 crisis: How self-control strategies elucidate employees’ job performance

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Working from home during the COVID-19 crisis: How self-control strategies elucidate employees’ job performance. / Troll, Eve Sarah; Venz, Laura; Weitzenegger, Fritzi et al.
in: Applied Psychology, Jahrgang 71, Nr. 3, 07.2022, S. 853-880.

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title = "Working from home during the COVID-19 crisis: How self-control strategies elucidate employees{\textquoteright} job performance",
abstract = "Employees around the globe experience manifold challenges to maintain job performance during the so-called work-from-home experiment caused by the COVID-19 crisis. Whereas the self-control literature suggests that higher trait self-control should enable employees to deal with these demands more effectively, we know little about the underlying mechanisms. In a mixed-methods approach and two waves of data collection, we examine how self-control strategies elucidate the link between teleworking employees' trait self-control and their job performance. Using a qualitative approach, we explored which strategies employees use to telework effectively ( N  = 266). In line with the process model of self-control, reported strategies pertained to situation modification (i.e., altering the physical, somatic, or social conditions) and cognitive change (i.e., goal setting, planning/scheduling, and autonomous motivation). Subsequent preregistered, quantitative analyses with a diverse sample of 106 teleworkers corroborated that higher trait self-control is related to job performance beyond situational demands and prior performance. Among all self-control strategies, modifying somatic conditions and autonomous motivation was significantly associated with job performance and mediated the self-control-performance link. This research provides novel insights into the processes by which employees productively work from home and inspires a broad(er) view on the topic of self-control at work. ",
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author = "Troll, {Eve Sarah} and Laura Venz and Fritzi Weitzenegger and Loschelder, {David D.}",
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year = "2022",
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