Abstract
Leaders face many challenges in motivating team members including maintaining remote workers' sense of organizational inclusion. Remote work and flexible working arrangements (FWA) have increased the complexity. Flexible working arrangements (FWA) provide value to employees and may help with work-life balance yet FWA can create employee loneliness and contribute to higher turnover. This quantitative study looked at whether leadership behavior affected remote workers’ loneliness, and the intention to quit. An online survey was conducted through LinkedIn sampling 92 adults who worked remotely at least 20 hours per week in the United States. The study found that the leader-member relationship does affect remote workers, the sense of loneliness, and the intention to quit. The implication for leaders is knowing leader behavior affects remote workers. Further research on leading remote workers is needed.
Recommended Citation
Carfagno, Russ; Strömbäck, Jonas; Joyner, Cheryl; and Franco, Gilbert
(2024)
"Remote Work: How Leaders Impact Employee Wellbeing,"
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership: Vol. 17
:
Iss.
2
, Article 13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22543/1948-0733.1515
Available at:
https://scholar.valpo.edu/jvbl/vol17/iss2/13
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