A125.
Rice, R. E. (2017). Flexwork,
boundaries, and work-family conflicts: How ICTs and work engagement
influence
their relationship. In G. Hertel, D. Stone, R.
D.
Johnson, & J. Passmore (Eds.), Handbook
of the psychology of the Internet at work (pp. 175-193).
London, UK: Wiley Blackwell Industrial &
Organizational Psychology Series.
Flexwork
involves worker
choice in time, location, and duration of work-related tasks.
Organizations
have increasingly offered, and employees have increasingly used,
flexwork
options due to organizational, technological, social, economic, and
legislative
forces. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) play a
central role
in these developments and implications. Yet there has been little
research on
the intersections among flexwork, work-family boundaries, and ICTs.
This paper
reviews and integrates conceptual definitions and distinctions,
influences, and
outcomes (positive, negative, conditional) associated with flexwork,
work-family boundaries, and ICTs, and their interrelationships,
organized by an
overall model. The review and model provide useful, intriguing, and
challenging
opportunities for management, employees, consultants, and researchers.