IT Road Warriors: Balancing Work-Family Conflict, Job Autonomy, and Work Overload to Mitigate Turnover Intentions

Examining the Relationship between Work Life Conflict, Stress and Turnover Intentions among Marketing Executives in Pakistan

“…Whereas other studies refers that the best performers were the most likely to leave because external opportunities would be plentiful (Jackofsky, 1984;Hochwarter et al, 2001). Ahuja et al, (2007) suggests "that turnover intention does not always result in turnover because a number of other factors enter the equation". Turnover intentions were hypothesized to eventually translate into turnover behavior over time by Richer, Blanchard & Vallerandi (2002).…”

“…(Leontaridi & Ward, 2002) it prepares body for defense (Sauter et al, 1999). "Work overload has a strong influence on work exhaustion" (Moore 2000;Ahuja et al, 2007) and sooner or later causes a number of diseases (Wofford, Goodwin & Daly, 1999). General Stress includes "three scales measuring general stress, emotional stress, and social stress with their consequences" (Davis, Orzeck & Keelan, 2006).…”

“…Attention given to the concept of organizational commitment signifies that it is related with turnover (Cohen, 1993). The turnover traditional factors, organizational commitment and work exhaustion were related to turnover intention (Ahuja et al, 2007). "The goal of 'effective management of turnover' dictates that a high level of sophistication particularly needs to be achieved by organizations to selectively influence the turnover process" (Morrell, Clarke & Wilkinson, 2001).…”

Context-specific theorizing in ICT4D research

“…In the IS discipline, certain IT professionals such as "IT road-warriors" (Ahuja, Chudoba, Kacmar, McKnight, & George, 2007) and IT users such as "On-the-Go Travelers" (Lamsfus et al, 2015) were found to be unique and needed special attention. In the ICT4D domain, this issue may become even more important.…”

When Modern Technologies Meet Ageing Workforces: Older Workers are more affected by Demands from Mobile Interruptions than their Younger Counterparts

“…We used 7-point likert-type scales ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree) for most items (except for the two last items measuring work-related technology usage) [32]  I feel overloaded because I receive more interruptions than I can process.  I feel rushed due to more frequent interruptions.…”