ion meaning was defined in terms of an encapsulation and simplification of teleworking; more so in terms of application technology: teleworking as a multi-faceted digital viability with varying levels of application on a par with physical working. The facets align to earlier sections that is, teleworking as per production technology (root definition) enables teleworking to potentially take on m...

The availability of high performance broadband services from the home will allow a growing number of organisations to offer teleworking as an employee work practice. Teleworking delivers cost savings, improved productivity and provides a recruitment policy to attract and retain personnel. Information security is one of the management considerations necessary before an effective organisational t...

The last few years have seen a growth in interest in the concept of distance-learning in the field of education and in the use of teleworking to provide a way of conducting work from home. Current predictions suggest that these could become very significant ways of learning and working in the future. The contention of this paper is that distance learning will continue its early adoption of many...

Teleworking is the key to a more flexible design of working time and places of work on the way to the modern information society with a knowledge oriented growth of economy. The rapid development of electronic networking systems such as Internet and the penetration of ISDN-based applications have demonstrated the enormous potential of technical facilities for new employment models. This paper d...

Despite the wide dissemination and acceptance of teleworking, there are negative effects for employees. Literature shows that these negative effects of telework lead to undesired outcomes for teleworkers such as teleworkexhaustion. The present research, however, goes one step further by identifying three significant telework-characteristics and hypothesising the relationship between telework-ch...

There are many problems involved in maintaining safety for different kinds of handicapped workers. One of the biggest problems is how these persons can commute to their workplace safely. One possible solution to this problem is using a teleworking system. This system is also good for saving money and the environment because it does not require commuting. The teleworking system has many other me...

Traffic congestion is one of the foremost problems confronted by the urban and suburban tenants of today. Traffic congestion increases vehicle emissions and degrades air quality. Urban planners and policy makers have consequently been always investigating choices to alleviate traffic congestion and to enhance air quality. Teleworking is one option that has received significant consideration and...

The fear of managers that they will lose control once their employees start teleworking is hindering acceptance and use of teleworking. As an alternative the concept of clan control can be used, which is a way to create a sharing of assumptions and goal congruence among a group of individuals. Since clan control does not require close monitoring it can easily be used in a teleworking context wh...

This study uses a knowledge transfer perspective, focusing both on ‘disruptive’ and ‘commiting’ consequences of teleworking affecting organisational knowledge transfer, to understand variations in the adoption and formalisation of teleworking practices in organisations. It hypothesises the influence of a set of conditions related to the so-called ‘knowledge transfer risk’: constituent character...

Purpose This paper aims at comparing teleworking adoption decision processes of multinational firms operating in Malaysia and Malaysian indigenous firms. It shows how to make comparative statistical analyses of teleworking adoption decision for the top managers of a firm. Design/methodology/approach A total of 98 organizations (represented by the CEO or Director of Human Resource Division) furn...