Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/327031 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Citation: 
[Journal:] BRQ Business Research Quarterly [ISSN:] 2340-9444 [Volume:] 27 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2024 [Pages:] 26-39
Publisher: 
Sage Publishing, London
Abstract: 
A recent cross-cultural study suggests employees may be classified, based on their scores on a measure of work ethic, into three profiles labeled as "live to work," "work to live," and "work as a necessary evil." The present study assesses whether these profiles were stable before and after an extended lockdown that forced employees to work from home for 2 years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. To assess our core research question, we conducted a longitudinal study with employees of a company in the financial sector, collecting data in two waves: February 2020 (n = 692) and June 2022 (n = 598). Tests of profile similarity indicated a robust structural and configural equivalence of the profiles before and after the lockdown. As expected, the prolonged pandemic-based lockdown had a significant effect on the proportion of individuals in each profile. Implications for leading and managing in a post-pandemic workforce are presented and discussed.
Subjects: 
Organizational behavior
human resource management
longitudinal/repeated measures analysis
research methods
event studies
analysis
JEL: 
M12
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Document Type: 
Article

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