DISTRIBUTED WORK ARRANGEMENTS IN INCREASING PERSONAL AGILITY

ABSTRACT

The world is currently facing the unpredictable change due to COVID-19. It impacts globally. dealing with this situation requires agility at both the organizational, team and individual levels. to increase a personal agility, organizations implement distributed work arrangements (DWA) in the form of work from home (WFH). This research aimed to determine the impact of DWA using determinant variables in the form of psychological capital, work characteristics, information and communication technology (icts) support, family support, and trust to increase personal agility. The empirical research was conducted toward 184 employees at the ABC organization who had been WFH during the covid-19 pandemic and lived with their families during WFH. Data analysis was performed using the structural equation model (SEM). DWA has positive impact to increase personal agility. psychological capital, icts support, family support, and trust have a positive effect on DWA. work characteristics does not really affect dwas. DWA can mediate the relationship between psychological capital, icts support, family support and trust in personal agility. The limitations of this research are the limited number of samples and case study only in ABC organization. This research is the first empirical research to examine the relationship between DWA using determinant variables in the form of psychological capital, work characteristics, ict support, family support and trust in personal agility.

KEYWORDS

Distributed Work Arrangements, Work From Home, Personal Agility, COVID-19