Informatie Management

Does Telework increase productivity?

Assignment 2: The proposition

Bachelor Thesis “ Does Telework increase productivity”
Erasmus University Rotterdam

Boudewijn Schuitmaker 348393bs
Robin Kettenes 335450rk
Marlot Sep 337273ms

Bachelor Thesis “Does Telework increase productivity”
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Team: Group 6 (BA-02-06)
Assignment number: 9
Date: 13-06-2012

Disclaimer:

“This document is written by Marlot Sep, Robin Kettenes and Boudewijn Schuitmaker, who declare that each of them takes responsibility for the full contents of the whole document. We declare that the text and the work presented in this document is original and that no sources other than mentioned in the text and its references have been used in creating it. RSM is only responsible for supervision of completion of the work but not for the contents.”

Index

Summary of the research proposal 4 1. Preface 6 2. Abstract 7 3. Introduction 8 4. Literature review 12 5. Methods 17 6. Results 19 7. Discussion 26
Appendix 28
Bibliography 35

* Summary of the research proposal

In this chapter a summary of the research proposal can be found.

Summary | | Name instructor | Dhr. Nick van der Meulen | Team number | 6 | Name student 1 | Robin Kettenes | Name student 2 | Boudewijn Schuitmaker | Name student 3 | Marlot Sep | Proposition | Telework will lead to an increase in productivity | Focal unit | Employees who perform their work at other places than at the office itself, for at least one day a week | Theoretical domain | All employees who work at other places than at the office itself, for at least one day a week, in the Netherlands. | Concept 1 | Telework | Concept 2 | Employees’ Productivity | Type of relation | Causal | Minimum size of the effect for having managerial relevance | The minimal size of effect for having managerial relevance is 20 % increase of productivity. | Typical parameter of effect

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