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Many studies have been conducted to identify on the factors that can affect and boost their productivity through enhanced performance by the employees in organizations. Employee performance is influenced by various factors at work place and flexible working arrangements has been noted as one of the most widely used strategy.
Purpose: The ultimate purpose of this study is to identify how flexible working arrangements can influence the employees' performance in organizations in Malaysia focusing on groups of employees of white collar age 24 to 60 years old.
Design: The research design chosen for this study is quantitative in nature. The quantitative research is that which tries to find answer to a question through analysis of quantitative data, i.e. the data shown in figures and numbers (Hashim, 2013; Taylor, 1998). Gay, Mills and Airasian (2009) explained that the strength of quantitative research is the opportunities that it provides researches to interact and gather data directly from their research participants to understand a phenomenon from their viewpoints. Quantitative research clearly and accurately specify both the dependent and independent variable. The quantitative methodology was used to evaluate and analyse the correlation between the independent variable (factors) and dependent variable (employee performance). This study is designated to analyse group of individuals as the respondents of the primary data that will be collected.
Findings: Flexible working arrangement have positively attributed to the improvement in employees' performance which are elaborated in detail in this research paper.
Research limitations/implications: Research methodology serves as backbone of a research study (Saunders et.al. 2009). It allows generalisations of the results by measuring the views and responses of the sample population which are likely to have limitations which are beyond our control (Simon, 2011). By saying that, improper illustration of the target population would possibly hinder the researcher for achieving its desired aims and objectives. Despite of applying acceptable sampling set up illustration of the topics depends on the likelihood distribution of ascertained data. This could led to miscalculation of likelihood distribution and cause falsity in proposition. Second possible limitation of this research is the flexible working arrangements might not be suitable for certain type of jobs namely for customer fronting employees. For example, in the banking industry the processes are still manual resulting...