Browsing by Author "Sivunen, Anu"
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- Factors influencing adjustment to remote work: Employees’ initial responses to the covid-19 pandemic
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2021-07-01) van Zoonen, Ward; Sivunen, Anu; Blomqvist, Kirsimarja; Olsson, Thomas; Ropponen, Annina; Henttonen, Kaisa; Vartiainen, MattiThe COVID-19 crisis has disrupted when, where, and how employees work. Drawing on a sample of 5452 Finnish employees, this study explores the factors associated with employees’ abrupt adjustment to remote work. Specifically, this study examines structural factors (i.e., work independence and the clarity of job criteria), relational factors (i.e., interpersonal trust and social isolation), contextual factors of work (i.e., change in work location and perceived disruption), and communication dynamics (i.e., organizational communication quality and communication technology use (CTU)) as mechanisms underlying adjustment to remote work. The findings demonstrate that structural and contextual factors are important predictors of adjustment and that these relationships are moderated by communication quality and CTU. Contrary to previous research, trust in peers and supervisors does not support adjustment to remote work. We discuss the implications of these findings for practice during and beyond times of crisis. - POP UP – Kehittämismalli tuottavaan tietotyöhön
Commissioned report(2017) Peltoniemi, Sanna; Poutanen, Jenni; Vuolle, Maiju; Vartiainen, Matti; Ahtinen, Aino; Horstia, Johanna; Palomäki, Eero; Salonius, Henna; Sivunen, Anu; Väänänen, Kaisa - Process Studies of Organizational Space
A2 Katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2020-07) Stephenson, Kathleen; Kuismin, Ari; Putnam, Linda; Sivunen, AnuThe past decade has experienced an increase in the number of studies on organizational space or where work occurs. A number of these studies challenge traditional views of organizational space as a fixed, physical workspace because researchers fail to account for the spatial dynamics that they observe. New technologies, shifting employee-employer relations, and burgeoning expectations of the contemporary workforce blur boundaries between home and work, connect people and things that historically could not be linked, and extend workspaces to nearly everywhere, not just office buildings. Research on these transformations calls for incorporating movement into the physicality of work. Thus, organizational scholars have turned to process studies as ways to examine the dynamic features that create and alter spatial arrangements. However, the rapidly growing work in this area lacks integration and theoretical development. To address these concerns, we review and classify the organizational literature that casts space as a process, that is, dynamically as movements, performances, flows, and changing routines. This review yields five orientations of organizational space scholarship that we label as: developing, transitioning, imbricating, becoming, and constituting. We discuss these orientations, examine how they relate to key constructs of organizational space, and show how this work offers opportunities to theorizing about organizations. - Understanding stressor-strain relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of social support, adjustment to remote work, and work-life conflict
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2021-11-17) Van Zoonen, Ward; Sivunen, Anu; Blomqvist, Kirsimarja; Olsson, Thomas; Ropponen, Annina; Henttonen, Kaisa; Vartiainen, MattiThis study investigates how the transition to remote work during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic is experienced by employees. We investigate to what extent perceived work stressors relate to psychological strain through perceptions of social support, work-life conflict, and adjustment to remote work. The findings expound the mechanisms underlying psychological strain in the context of sudden organizational change. Specifically, this study shows that both challenge stressors and hindrance stressors have negative impact on adjustment to remote work, whereas hindrance stressors are more strongly negatively related to social support. The study further demonstrates that there is hardly any buffering impact of job control, work structuring, and communication technology use on the implications of these work stressors. These findings contribute to our theoretical understanding and provide actionable implications for organizational policies in facilitating employees' adaptation to remote work. - Workspace methodologies : studying communication, collaboration and workscapes
D4 Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys(2006) Vartiainen, Matti; Gersberg, Nils; Hyrkkänen, Ursula; Kauttu, Marja; Nenonen, Suvi; Palonen, Tuire; Ruohomäki, Virpi; Rasila, Heidi; Sivunen, Anu; Tuomela, AnttiThis report consists of descriptions of methods, which are used for studying, evaluating and developing workplaces. Work environments are analyzed as layers or imbedded levels: as physical, virtual and mental/social spaces. In this analysis, Kurt Lewin's classical psychological concept 'Life Space' is used as well as the concept 'ba' provided by Nonaka, Toyama and Konno. 'Ba' refers to socially shared space, where people create, share and use knowledge. The concept of Ba unifies the physical space, such as an office space, the virtual space, such as e-mail, and the mental or social space, such as common experiences, ideas, values, and ideals shared by people with common goals as a working context. A hypothesis is that the support and/or hindrances of these spaces have a crucial influence on the activities of employees, groups and organizations. To design and develop workplaces it is fundamental to identify these facilitating and hindering work context characteristics. For this purpose, various methods are needed to collect data, to analyze it, to describe and model the environments, and to analyze their quality. In this report, some only methods are described. They are: social network analysis, sketching and photographing methods, communication analysis, work requirement and well-being analysis, simulation game method and multidisciplinary workplace study methodology. The described methods are examples of approaches and methods meant to cling to the challenges of workplace design. - Yhteistyöohjelmisto ryhmän tehtävien tukena tutkimusprojektissa
Bachelor's thesis(2007) Kuusela, Ilona