Analysing factors influencing stated preference of the administrative and academic employees towards telecommuting in IIUM Campus, Gombak

Telecommuting is seen as a Transportation Demand Management (TDM) tool that can reduce congestion by eliminating a trip or shifting it out of the peak travel period by allowing employees to work from home. This paper constitutes an empirical study on factors influencing the choice of telecommuting a...

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Main Authors: Ismail, Farah Diyanah, Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez, Mohamed, Mohd Zin
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
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spelling iium-337102013-12-26T04:52:10Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/33710/ Analysing factors influencing stated preference of the administrative and academic employees towards telecommuting in IIUM Campus, Gombak Ismail, Farah Diyanah Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez Mohamed, Mohd Zin NA9000 Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television Telecommuting is seen as a Transportation Demand Management (TDM) tool that can reduce congestion by eliminating a trip or shifting it out of the peak travel period by allowing employees to work from home. This paper constitutes an empirical study on factors influencing the choice of telecommuting adoption in the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) among the administrative and academic employees. Methods of analysisconducted in this study are chi-square test and spearman’s correlation coefficient. The results showed that age, marital status, presence of children age 12 and less and frequency of face to face communication were significantly associated with the preference towards telecommuting. Furthermore, this research has tested the relationship between facilitators of telecommuting and willingness to telecommute as well as relationship between inhibitors of telecommuting and the willingness to perform telecommuting. Lastly, the study concludes with suggestions and recommendations to increase the penetration of telecommuting in IIUM. 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/33710/1/EASTS2013Farah.pdf Ismail, Farah Diyanah and Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez and Mohamed, Mohd Zin (2013) Analysing factors influencing stated preference of the administrative and academic employees towards telecommuting in IIUM Campus, Gombak. In: 10th EASTS Conference 2013, 9-13 September 2013, Taipei, Taiwan. http://easts.info/on-line/proceedings/vol9/PDF/P52.pdf
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topic NA9000 Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying
TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
spellingShingle NA9000 Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying
TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
Ismail, Farah Diyanah
Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez
Mohamed, Mohd Zin
Analysing factors influencing stated preference of the administrative and academic employees towards telecommuting in IIUM Campus, Gombak
description Telecommuting is seen as a Transportation Demand Management (TDM) tool that can reduce congestion by eliminating a trip or shifting it out of the peak travel period by allowing employees to work from home. This paper constitutes an empirical study on factors influencing the choice of telecommuting adoption in the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) among the administrative and academic employees. Methods of analysisconducted in this study are chi-square test and spearman’s correlation coefficient. The results showed that age, marital status, presence of children age 12 and less and frequency of face to face communication were significantly associated with the preference towards telecommuting. Furthermore, this research has tested the relationship between facilitators of telecommuting and willingness to telecommute as well as relationship between inhibitors of telecommuting and the willingness to perform telecommuting. Lastly, the study concludes with suggestions and recommendations to increase the penetration of telecommuting in IIUM.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Ismail, Farah Diyanah
Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez
Mohamed, Mohd Zin
author_facet Ismail, Farah Diyanah
Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez
Mohamed, Mohd Zin
author_sort Ismail, Farah Diyanah
title Analysing factors influencing stated preference of the administrative and academic employees towards telecommuting in IIUM Campus, Gombak
title_short Analysing factors influencing stated preference of the administrative and academic employees towards telecommuting in IIUM Campus, Gombak
title_full Analysing factors influencing stated preference of the administrative and academic employees towards telecommuting in IIUM Campus, Gombak
title_fullStr Analysing factors influencing stated preference of the administrative and academic employees towards telecommuting in IIUM Campus, Gombak
title_full_unstemmed Analysing factors influencing stated preference of the administrative and academic employees towards telecommuting in IIUM Campus, Gombak
title_sort analysing factors influencing stated preference of the administrative and academic employees towards telecommuting in iium campus, gombak
publishDate 2013
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/33710/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/33710/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/33710/1/EASTS2013Farah.pdf
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