Contributions of a supportive work environment to parents' well‐being and orientation to work

Abstract

Examined the joint and unique contributions of informal social support in the workplace and formal, family-responsive benefits and policies provided by employers to the job-related attitudes and personal well-being of employed parents with a young child. Eighty married men, 169 married women, and 72 single women with a preschool child completed a survey concerning social support from co-workers and supervisor, utilization of family-responsive benefits and policies, readiness to leave the employer for additional benefits, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, role strain, and health symptoms. Among the findings: (a) Fathers and mothers expressed equal levels of job satisfaction and organizational commitment, but mothers reported more role strain and health symptoms; (b) nearly 48% of married women's organizational commitment was accounted for by measures of support in the workplace; (c) informal social support at work was significantly more important to men's well-being than that of women; and (d) formal, family-responsive policies appeared more consequential for the prediction of women's role strain, perhaps because of women's greater responsibility for adjusting work life to meet the demands of family roles.

Família e adolescência: a influência do contexto familiar no desenvolvimento psicológico de seus membros

“…Além disso, a maior participação da mulher no mercado de trabalho formalmente remunerado (Greenberger, Goldberg, Hamill, O'Neil & Payne, 1989), provocou mudanças nos padrões conjugais e familiares social e culturalmente estabelecidos, levando a uma reorganização dos papéis familiares tradicionais referentes a homens e mulheres (Scavone, 2001) evidenciando a importância dos papéis do homem na família (Greenberger & cols., 1989;Lisboa, 1987;Scavone, 2001). O homem passa a ser incentivado a manter um maior envolvimento afetivo com os(as) filhos(as), "terminando com a dicotomia: pai distante, figura de autoridade e mãe próxima, figura de afeto" (Lisboa, 1987, p. 14).…”

Price, rebate and order quantity decisions in a newsvendor framework with rebate-dependent recapture of lost sales

“…The finding of no gender differences in the trend of taking parental leave appears somewhat inconsistent with earlier theories and other research (Greenberger et al, 1989). A possible explanation is that, in recent years, an important cultural shift has encouraged fatherhood and men's involvement in childcare (Daly, 2004).…”

“…According to gender role expectations, women are considered to be responsible for the majority of childcare and household tasks (Greenberger and Goldberg, 1989;Hochschild and Machung, 1989). The "motherhood mandate" (Russo, 1976) indicates that the priority of the mother is to care for her children and that commitment to work should be secondary.…”

Family-friendly policies as an organizational support to overcome work-family conflict

“…The implementation of family friendly policies is more effective if they are supported by the supervisor, employer or organization. The benefits and effects of good management or supervisory support is positive increase in job satisfaction, career satisfaction, high commitment and good attitude, less absences from work, less stress and pressure of roles and lack of intention to quit (Allen, 2001;Greenberger et al, 1989, Goff et al, 1990Ganster, 1995, Thompson et al, 1999). Frone et al, (1997) also added that supervisor support could reduce psychological stress sustained by an employee.…”