| Abstract [eng] |
Relevance of research topic. Nowadays life without information technologies is unimaginable. The technological evolution has had an enormous effect on everyday life and without doubt continues to greatly impact our professional activities. Information technologies facilitate the performance of work tasks, provide opportunities to accomplish such tasks faster from any place outside of work. However, tools which allow people to carry out their work from any place at any time burden employees with an additional responsibility of maintaining proper balance between the time allocated for personal life and work. The object of final project – the impact of the use of information technologies on employees’ work–life balance. The aim of the final project – to reveal the impact that the use of information technologies has on the work–life balance of employees. The tasks of final project: 1. To carry out the analysis of the concept of work–life balance in scholarly literature; 2. Having carried out the analysis of scholarly literature, to reveal the impact of the use of information technologies on employees’ work–life balance; 3. To formulate the theoretical model of the impact of the information technology use on employees’ work–life balance; 4. To empirically analyse the impact of the use of information technologies on employees’ work–life balance. The main results of the final project. Having carried out the analysis of scholarly literature, the theoretical model of the impact of information technology use on employees’ work–life balance was formulated, whose basis consists of the impact of duration (time) and frequency of information technology use on the changes of flexibility and permeability of work–life balance boundaries. The theoretical model of the impact of information technology use on employees’ work–life balance is based on the approach that the duration and frequency of IT use change the boundaries of work–life balance, i.e., affect the perception of work–life balance by increasing flexibility and permeability. More flexibility and permeability between work and personal life means that the work activities invade private life and vice versa. Therefore, this research raises the following problematic question: what is the relationship between the duration and frequency of IT use and the flexibility and permeability of work–life balance boundaries? The theoretical model was tested by carrying out an empirical analysis. Having carried out the empirical analysis on the impact of information technology use on employees’ work–life balance it was determined that positive statistically significant relationship exists between the duration and frequency of IT use and the flexibility and permeability of work–life balance boundaries, which means that the longer and more often the employee uses IT for personal purposes at work or for work-related purposes in personal life, the more it changes the flexibility and permeability of work–life balance boundaries. |
