How Important Are Work-Family Support Policies? A Meta-Analytic Investigation of Their Effects on Employee Outcomes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Butts, Marcus M.; Casper, Wendy J.; Yang, Tae Seok
• 署名单位: University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington; Western Illinois University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0030389
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 1-25
• 关键词: WORK-FAMILY POLICIES; dependent care; Meta-analysis

摘要

This meta-analysis examines relationships between work family support policies, which are policies that provide support for dependent care responsibilities, and employee outcomes by developing a conceptual model detailing the psychological mechanisms through which policy availability and use relate to work attitudes. Bivariate results indicated that availability and use of work family support policies had modest positive relationships with job satisfaction, affective commitment, and intentions to stay. Further, tests of differences in effect sizes showed that policy availability was more strongly related to job satisfaction, affective commitment, and intentions to stay than was policy use. Subsequent meta-analytic structural equation modeling results indicated that policy availability and use had modest effects on work attitudes, which were partially mediated by family-supportive organization perceptions and work-to-family conflict, respectively. Additionally, number of policies and sample characteristics (percent women, percent married-cohabiting, percent with dependents) moderated the effects of policy availability and use on outcomes. Implications of these findings and directions for future research on work family support policies are discussed.