E-leadership, psychological contract and real-time performance management: Remotely working professionals
e-leadership; Psychological Contract; Real-time Performance Management; Remote Work; Virtual Teams
Using the model of E- Leadership in Virtual teams (Avolio et al.), this paper examines impact of Psychological Contract, mediated by E-leadership, on Real-time Performance Management of Remotely working professionals. Following a quantitative research method, data was collected from 57 remotely working professional across the world. Significant positive relationships were found among Leadership Effectiveness of E-leaders, Relational Psychological Contract and Efficiency of RPM. The results confirm the interaction of the given variables in Avolio's Model of E-leadership, highlighting technological aspects of human interactions and ways to optimise them. The results underline several important managerial implications for effective leadership, fulfilling psychological contract and effective performance management, of a type of workforce that is only virtually available. 2019 SCMS Group of Educational Institutions. All rights reserved.
SCMS Journal of Indian Management, Vol-16, No. 3, pp. 101-111.
Meghana J., Department of Psychology, Christ (Deemed to Be University), Bangalore, India; Vijaya R., Department of Psychology, Christ (Deemed to Be University), Bangalore, India