New Ways of Working Practices

Jan de Leede, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

• Introduction1. Finding the Optimal Mix between Telework and Office Hours to Enhance Employee Productivity: A Study into the Relationship between Telework Intensity and Individual Productivity, with Mediation of Intrinsic Motivation and Moderation of Office Hours - Niels Hoornweg, Pascale Peters and Beatrice van der Heijden2. Boundaryless Work, Psychological Detachment and Sleep: Does Working ‘Anytime Anywhere’ Equal Employees Are ‘Always on’? - Christin Mellner, Göran Kecklund, Michiel Kompier, Amir Sariaslan and Gunnar Aronsson3. New Ways of Working and Leadership: An Empirical Study in the Service Industry - Jan de Leede and Paddy Heuver4. Understanding Teamwork Behaviors in the Use of New Ways of Working - Jan de Leede and Joyce Nijland5. Fostering Innovation: The Influence of New Ways of Working on Innovative Work Behavior - Florian Moll and Jan de Leede6. A Comparison between New Ways of Working and Sociotechnical Systems - Merle Blok, Friso van der Meulen and Steven Dhondt7. Outlook: Some HR Implications towards Normal Ways of Working - Tanya Bondarouk and Jan de Leede

De Leede defines New Ways of Working (NWW), citing its main characteristic as the freedom for employees to choose their working times and working places. The second is the use of IT to enable this remote work and the 24/7 possibility to work at other times. He dubs these “new” concepts “management fashions,” and he aims to present some examples of new ways of working practices and to show some theory behind it, with a focus on the behavioral side of NWW. While the book is about the new world of work and new ways of working, it might be said to be about the future of work and how new technologies and new office concepts are decisive for working environments.