Cilt 9 Sayı 67 (2021)

Araştırma Makalesi

Uzaktan Çalışma ve İş-Yaşam Dengesinin Çalışan Motivasyonuna Etkisinin Kavramsal Açıdan İncelenmesi

Yayımlandı 31.12.2021

Cilt 9 Sayı 67 kapak

Öz

Dünya nüfusunun yarısından fazlasının karşılaşmış olduğu pandemi süreci toplumların Covid-19’un yayılmasını önleyebilecek bir dizi önlemleri de beraberinde getirmiştir. Alınan önlemler mikro düzeyde incelendiğinde, kurumların iş aktivitelerinde ve çalışma ortamlarının değişiminde öne çıkan uygulamaların olduğu görülmüştür. Covid-19 döneminde uygulanmasının yaygınlaştığı çalışma düzeni olarak uzaktan çalışma yöntemine geçilmiştir. Yöntemin avantajlarının çalışanlar tarafından olumlu karşılanmasına rağmen olumsuz taraflarının da ortaya çıkması çalışanların iş-yaşam dengelerinde bazı aksaklıklara neden olmuştur. Bu sebepledir ki iş-yaşam dengesindeki bozulmaların meydana gelmesi çalışanların duygu, düşünce, tutum ve davranışlarında değişimlere yol açmıştır. Değişimlerin en çok görüldüğü nokta çalışan motivasyonunda ortaya çıkmıştır. Çalışan motivasyonunu etkileyebilecek unsurların meydana gelmesi iş akışlarında ve kurumların hedeflerine ulaşmasında bazı zorlukları da beraberinde getirmiştir. Bu doğrultuda çalışma, Covid-19 döneminde gerçekleşen çalışma düzenlerindeki değişikliklerin, iş-yaşam dengesindeki bozulmaların ve bu iki durumunun çalışan motivasyonu üzerindeki etkileri araştırılmıştır. Çalışmanın sonucunda çeşitli araştırmaların karşılaştırmalarından yararlanılarak uzaktan çalışma sisteminin ve iş-yaşam dengesinin çalışanların motivasyonları üzerinde etkilerinin olduğu sonucuna varılmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler Uzaktan çalışma, İş-yaşam dengesi, Çalışan motivasyonu, Covid-19

Abstract

A Conceptual Analysis of the Effects of Remote Work and Work-Life Balance on Employee Motivation

The pandemic process, which more than half of the world's population has faced, has brought along a series of measures that can prevent the spread of Covid-19. When the measures taken are examined at the micro level, it is seen that there are prominent practices in the business activities of the institutions and the change of the working environment. Remote working method has been adopted as the working order, which has become widespread in the Covid-19 period. Despite the positive reception of the advantages of the method by the employees, the emergence of its negative aspects also caused some disruptions in the work-life balance of the employees. For this reason, the deterioration in the work-life balance has led to changes in the emotions, thoughts, attitudes and behaviors of the employees. The point where the most changes were observed was in employee motivation. The occurrence of factors that can affect employee motivation has brought along some difficulties in workflows and in achieving the goals of institutions. In this direction, the study investigated the changes in work patterns, disruptions in work-life balance and the effects of these two situations on employee motivation during the Covid-19 period. As a result of the study, it was concluded that the remote working system and work-life balance have effects on the motivation of the employees by making use of the comparisons of various studies.

Keywords Remote work, Work-life balance, Employee motivation, Covid-19

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