Changing work, changing health: can real work-time flexibility promote health behaviors and well-being

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• Personal Author:
  Huang Q ; Kelly EL ; Moen P ; Tranby E
• Description:
  This article investigates a change in the structuring of work time, using a natural experiment to test whether participation in a corporate initiative (Results Only Work Environment; ROWE) predicts corresponding changes in health-related outcomes. Drawing on job strain and stress process models, we theorize greater schedule control and reduced work-family conflict as key mechanisms linking this initiative with health outcomes. Longitudinal survey data from 659 employees at a corporate headquarters shows that ROWE predicts changes in health-related behaviors, including almost an extra hour of sleep on work nights. Increasing employees' schedule control and reducing their work-family conflict are key mechanisms linking the ROWE innovation with changes in employees' health behaviors; they also predict changes in well-being measures, providing indirect links between ROWE and well-being. This study demonstrates that organizational changes in the structuring of time can promote employee wellness, particularly in terms of prevention behaviors. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Family Men Occupational Health Safety Sleep Sleep Initiation And Maintenance Disorders Surveys And Questionnaires Women
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Flexibility Employee-health Employees Families Gender Health-surveys Health Behavior Job-analysis Natural Experiment Occupations Organizational Change Questionnaires Schedule Control Sleep Sleep-deprivation Well-being Work-family Conflict Work-operations Work-organization Work-practices Worker-health Workers

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• ISSN:
  0022-1465
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Delaware ; Minnesota ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  404-429
• Volume:
  52
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042143
• Citation:
  J Health Soc Behav 2011 Dec; 52(4):404-429
• Contact Point Address:
  Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology, 909 Social Sciences Building, 267 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
• Email:
  phylmoen@umn.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Health and Social Behavior
• End Date:
  20081130
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7ddc085ad6ee5f5cc5b4361d4398447ce0763f01a8a5cf9fbd5b7d7fc78c5cea8a11ee87b334211f2f192ebd4a2ef4cbc476f9bf64c1df8b3fda486ffd6dbcc4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194462/cdc_194462_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 564.13 KB ]