Although evidence is growing in the occupational health field that supervisors are a critical influence on subordinates’ reports of family supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB), our understanding is limited regarding the antecedents of employee’s FSSB perceptions and their lagged effects on future health and work outcomes. Drawing on a positive job resource perspective, we argue that supervisors who report that they use transformational leadership (TL) styles are more likely to have subordinates with higher FSSB perceptions. We theorize that these enhanced perceptions of work-family specific support increase access to personal and social resources (objectively and subjectively) that buffer work-nonwork demands and enhance health (mental, physical) and job outcomes (performance appraisal ratings, job satisfaction, turnover intentions, work-family conflict). Time-lagged multi-source survey data collected in a field study from retail employees and their supervisors and archival performance ratings data collected a year later support our proposed relationships (with the exception that for health, only mental health and not physical health was significant). Post hoc analyses showed that employees’ FSSB perceptions play a mediating role between supervisor TL and job satisfaction and work-family conflict, but no other outcomes studied. Overall, this study answers calls in the occupational health literature to use stronger designs to determine linkages between leadership-related workplace phenomena as antecedents of health, work-family, and job outcomes. Our results demonstrate that employees with supervisors who report that they use transformational leadership styles are more likely to perceive higher levels of family supportive supervision, which are positive job resources that enhance occupational health.

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This chapter examines the use of micro-blogs in the human resource management (HRM) areas of recruitment and selection. While there is much attention in the popular press and practitioner literature about how HRM is incorporating micro-blogging and related social media platforms to help execute basic HRM functions, scholarly research on the subject is sparse, with only a handful of peer-reviewed journal articles/edited books. Although these works have contributed much to our understanding, we still know very little about how specific HRM practices can incorporate micro-blogs to achieve competitiveness. We also know very little about the legal and ethical dilemmas associated with using micro-blogs and how employers in general and HRM in particular can circumvent these problems. This chapter will address these issues and will conclude with future research directions that might be used as a platform for subsequent conceptual and empirical research.