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Role Efficacy and People Flexibility: Examining Moderating Functions of Demographic Factors

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Managing Flexibility

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In the present chapter, author(s) have put their efforts to broaden the causal inventory of an important managerial construct, i.e., people flexibility. Role efficacy and its dimensions were examined as antecedents of people flexibility. Literature on role efficacy and people flexibility is discussed and preliminary thoughts on their interrelationships are noted. In order to equip the proposed hypotheses with empirical validation a primary survey was conducted among 348 Indian managers. Thereafter, multiple hierarchical regression was applied. As assumed role-efficacy dimensions were found significant and positive predictors of people flexibility. Further, to ascertain whether demographic characteristics of managers (gender, managerial levels, and organization type) moderate the relationships of role-efficacy dimensions and people flexibility, bootstrapping (through structural equation modeling) was employed. The results of bootstrapping have confirmed the significant moderating effect of demographic factors.

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  1. Indian Institute of Management Raipur, 492001, Raipur, India

    Umesh Kumar Bamel

  2. Department of Humanities and Social Science, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India

    Renu Rastogi

  3. Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India

    Santosh Rangnekar

  4. National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India

    Shyam Narayan

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  2. Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Kanika T. Bhal

  3. Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi, India

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Bamel, U., Rastogi, R., Rangnekar, S., Narayan, S. (2016). Role Efficacy and People Flexibility: Examining Moderating Functions of Demographic Factors. In: Sushil, ., Bhal, K., Singh, S. (eds) Managing Flexibility. Flexible Systems Management. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2380-1_9

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