Reactualized in Times of Crisis: The Role of Relatedness at Work
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a switch to remote work and has given a boost to new digital technologies. These changes are altering the relational aspects of work and have had fundamental implications for workplace relationships, reactualizing the role...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Diaconia |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.13109/diac.2020.11.2.141 |
| Summary: | The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a switch to remote work and has given a boost
to new digital technologies. These changes are altering the relational aspects of work
and have had fundamental implications for workplace relationships, reactualizing
the role of interpersonal relationships in organizations. This study investigates the
significance of relatedness as a source facilitating work motivation and other work
outcomes. Drawing on the self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan:1985; Ryan
& Deci: 2017), the paper proposes and empirically tests a model for investigating
the role of relatedness at work. Based on a sample consisting of 261 respondents
from a diaconal and a commercial healthcare institution in Norway, the findings
indicate that relatedness independently contributes to intrinsic work motivation.
Further, no differences in path coefficients between the diaconal and the commercial
organization were found. The article discusses how these findings from the current
study, which was conducted before the Covid-19 outbreak, can give insights into
the worklife during and after the pandemic. |
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| ISSN: | 1869-3261 2196-9027 |