Subjective Well-Being, Knowledge Management, and Performance under COVID-19: Social Distancing and Teleworking from Home

• Project/Area Number: 21K01696
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 07080:Business administration-related
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: マニエー渡邊 レミー 筑波大学, ビジネスサイエンス系, 教授 (00527848)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000); Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: Telework / COVID-19 / Knowledge management / Gender roles / Work family conflicts / Japan / Knowledge sharing / Communication media / Satisfaction / Job performance / Covid-19 / Subjective well-being / Knowledge Management

Outline of Research at the Start

This research will examine how social distancing and telework from home brought about by COVID-19 have transformed the traditional antecedents and outcomes of subjective well-being, of effective management of knowledge, and of job performance, and propose countermeasures.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

I examined the changes in gender role attitudes and work-family conflicts before and during forced telework from home in the Tokyo area in Spring 2020, and shed light on their first experience with telework.
I investigated how mandatory telework had affected knowledge management based on telework frequency and prior telework experience and found significant differences. Training and practice of remote work can decisively increase knowledge management efficiency for telework novices and working one day a week in the office contributes to higher knowledge management among experienced coworkers.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] COVID-19 and mandatory telework: effects on gender roles and work family conflicts among Japanese dual-career regular employees with children (2023)
  • Author(s): Magnier-Watanabe Remy, Magnier-Watanabe Kaoruko
  • Journal Title: Japan Forum Volume: 36 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-29
  • DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2023.2200967
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Communication Media as Mediators of Telework Frequency and Knowledge Sharing in Japan under COVID-19 (2023)
  • Author(s): Magnier-Watanabe, R.
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology Volume: / Pages: 1-18
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Foreign coworker nationality, cultural distance, and perception of cultural diversity in the workplace (2022)
  • Author(s): Orsini Philippe, Magnier-Watanabe Remy
  • Journal Title: Journal of Asia Business Studies Volume: 17(2) Issue: 2 Pages: 256-278
  • DOI: 10.1108/jabs-10-2021-0413
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Three is Company, Four is a Crowd? Perceptions of Cultural Diversity in the Workplace (2022)
  • Author(s): ORSINI Philippe, MAGNIER-WATANABE Remy
  • Journal Title: Social Science Japan Journal Volume: 25(2) Issue: 2 Pages: 247-272
  • DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac003
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] COVID-19 and mandatory teleworking from home in Japan: taking stock to improve satisfaction and job performance (2022)
  • Author(s): Magnier-Watanabe Remy、Benton Caroline、Orsini Philippe、Uchida Toru、Magnier-Watanabe Kaoruko
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Organizational Analysis Volume: / Issue: 6 Pages: 1-28
  • DOI: 10.1108/ijoa-08-2021-2907
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Telework Experience and Frequency, and Knowledge Management during COVID-19 in Japan (2023)
  • Author(s): Magnier-Watanabe, R.
  • Organizer: Proceedings of the 17th Knowledge Management in Organizations Conference (KMO 2023), Bangkok (Thailand)
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Effect of Telework Frequency on Communication Media and Knowledge Sharing in Japan (2022)
  • Author(s): Magnier-Watanabe, R.
  • Organizer: 16th Knowledge Management in Organizations Conference (KMO 2022), Hagen (Germany)
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Book] Telework experience and frequency, and knowledge management during COVID-19 in Japan, in Uden, L., Ting, I.-H. (Eds.), Knowledge Management in Organizations: Communications in Computer and Information Science Volume 1825 (2023)
  • Author(s): Magnier-Watanabe, R.
  • Total Pages: 14
  • Publisher: Springer
• [Book] New Trends in Knowledge Management Development, International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, 18(3) (2023)
  • Author(s): Uden, L., Magnier-Watanabe, R., Marczewska, M. (Eds.)
  • Total Pages: 125
  • Publisher: Inderscience
• [Book] The effect of telework frequency on communication media and knowledge sharing in Japan, in Uden, L., Ting, I.-H., Feldmann, B. (Eds.), Knowledge Management in Organizations: Communications in Computer and Information Science Volume 1593 (pp. 3-15) (2022)
  • Author(s): Magnier-Watanabe, R.
  • Total Pages: 392
  • Publisher: Springer
• [Book] [強制的テレワークによる従業員が受けた影響] (Chap. 3), in [ポスト・コロナ学―パンデミックと社会の変化・連続性、そして未来] (2022)
  • Author(s): 秋山 肇 (Ed.) Magnier-Watanabe, R., Benton, C., Uchida, T., Orsini, P., Magnier-Watanabe, K.
  • Publisher: 明石書店
  • ISBN: 9784750353746