Do family-friendly policies fulfill their promise? An investigation of their impact on work-family conflict and work and personal outcomes.

2002 ◽  
pp. 211-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hazel M. Rosin ◽  
Karen Korabik
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
Work Family

scholarly journals Family-Friendly Policy and Work-Family Conflict Mitigation: The Role of Work-Family Boundary Negotiation

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Hooi-Ching Khor ◽  
Azura Abdullah Effendi
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Human Resource Policy ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
Negotiation Style ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Conflict Mitigation

Family-friendly policy is impossible to fit all working individuals. The circumstance has been revealed in work-family literature which relationship between the policy use and the work-family conflict mitigation has been found inconsistent. Little focus is given in the past studies to ensure the human resource policy is truly useful in meeting individuals’ needs. Work, family or both work and family life could be important to individuals. The distinctive life centrality requires individuals to negotiate with the significant others who have influence on their work and family life arrangements to access and use the preferred and needed family-friendly policy. Boundary management practices seem to be useful for working individuals to reduce work-family conflict. This conceptual paper aims to propose work-family boundary negotiation to buffer the relationship of family-friendly policy use and work-family conflict. Boundary theory is the underlying theory embedded to explain the phenomena. Boundary negotiation style that could be employed for accessing the policy and managing work-family boundary effectively is identified. Future directions and implications for research on negotiation in dealing with work-family issue are discussed.

Family-friendly benefits?

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 721-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Ferrer ◽  
Lynda Gagné
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Employee Survey ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
Worker Selection ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Work Family

AbstractData from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey (1999–2002) is used to assess the take-up of family-friendly benefits provided by employers. We distinguish benefit availability from the actual use of benefits and are able to account for worker selection into firms. We find that selection is important to understand the take-up of family-friendly benefits and that there is little difference between genders regarding benefit use. Overall, it seems that some family-friendly benefits (like flexible time) are relatively little help in the management of work-family conflict, while others (like childcare or eldercare) are unavailable to those who would benefit from them the most.

Family-friendly support programs and work family conflict among Indonesian higher education employees

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. 726-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tri Wulida Afrianty ◽  
John Burgess ◽  
Theodora Issa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of family-friendly programs at the workplace in the Indonesian higher education sector. The focus is the impact that these programs have on employees’ work family conflict. Design/methodology/approach – A survey of academic and non-academic staff from 30 higher education institutions across Indonesia participated in the research. A total of 159 completed questionnaires from 109 academic and 50 from non-academic staff are reported and statistically analysed using SPSS. Findings – Work and family experiences in Indonesia do not positively align with the findings reported in most academic literature pertaining to western societies where the use of family-friendly programs (i.e. flexible work options, specialized leave options and dependent care support) leads to a reduction in employees’ work family conflict. In fact, some of the programs were found to have the opposite effect in the Indonesian context. Research limitations/implications – The design of family-friendly support has to take into account the context in which the policies will operates; these policies are not transferable across countries in terms of their effectiveness. Originality/value – This is one of the first studies that has examined the operation and effectiveness of family-friendly support programs in an Indonesian context.

A Study on Moderating Role of Family-Friendly Policies in Work–Life Balance

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110300
Author(s):  
Anuradha Nayak ◽  
Mrinalini Pandey
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Work Demand ◽  
Work Conflict ◽  
Women Employees ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Family Work Conflict

The present study aims to explore the relationship between work demand and work–family conflict, and family demand and family–work conflict. This study also tries to find out the moderating effect of family-friendly policies between the proposed relationships. The data for this study were collected from 217 women employees working in steel manufacturing companies of Jharkhand. The results of the study indicate that there is positive correlation between work demand and work–family conflict, and family demand and family–work conflict. Moreover, family-friendly policies are observed to significantly moderate the relationship of work demand and work–family conflict, but they do not significantly moderate the relationship of family demand and family–work conflict. This article gives insights into understanding the role of family-friendly policies to reduce the work–family conflict among women employees. A few measures are suggested, and employers should adopt such policies to minimize the work–family conflict, which can lead to better work–life balance

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