Considered as a popular and effective practice in public agencies, teleworking is an alternative work arrangement that is believed to benefit both individuals and organizations. However, the research on teleworking remains centered on the individual-level analysis and on the outcomes associated with the practice, without deeply investigating how organizational and institutional factors affect organizations' implementation of the teleworking practice. The interest of this study is to filling this gap by using and extending the organizational configuration theory to understand the variation in the teleworking rate among US federal agencies. Data from the 2010 and 2013 FedView Survey of the U.S federal government employees will be used in this study. The teleworking rate at the sub-agency level represents the dependent variable, and is modeled with the explanatory factors affecting it, in a Hierarchical Linear Model and a Cluster Adjusted Multiple Regression Model. Factors such as organizational centralization, professionalization and organizational demographics are modeled as the predictors of the teleworking rate at the sub-agency level. Organizational size, age, level of politicization, policy mission, and previous levels of teleworking will be modeled as predictors at the agency level. The results suggest that organizational structure, employees' characteristics, leadership support and factors specific to federal agencies such as politicization and policy mission influence the teleworking rate in federal sub-agencies. / A Dissertation submitted to the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Philosophy. / Spring Semester, 2015. / March 17, 2015. / Configuration theory, Federal agencies, Flexible policies, Teleworking, Work-life Balance / Includes bibliographical references. / Kaifeng Yang, Professor Directing Dissertation; Gerald R. Ferris, University Representative; Frances S. Berry, Committee Member; Ralph S. Brower, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_253444 |
| Contributors | Cherkaoui, Hanane (authoraut), Yang, Kaifeng (professor directing dissertation), Ferris, Gerald R. (university representative), Berry, Frances Stokes (committee member), Brower, Ralph S. (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (degree granting college), School of Public Administration and Policy (degree granting department) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource (109 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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