It road warriors: Balancing work-family conflict, job autonomy, and work overload to mitigate turnover intentions

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-17

  Ahuja, Manju K ^a   Chudoba, Katherine M ^b   Kacmar, Charles J ^c   Harrison McKnight, D ^d   George, Joey F ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Fairness; IT personnel; Organizational commitment; Road warrior; Turnover; Turnover intention; Work exhaustion; Work overload; Work family conflict

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ROAD WARRIORS; TURNOVER INTENTION; WORK EXHAUSTION; WORK OVERLOADS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33847732613     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25148778     Document Type: Article

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