The Influence of Family-Supportive Supervisor Training on Employee Job Performance and Attitudes: An Organizational Work-Family Intervention

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• Personal Author:
  Bodner TE ; Crain TL ; Hammer LB ; Odle-Dusseau HN
• Description:
  Training supervisors to increase their family-supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB) has demonstrated significant benefits for employee physical health, job satisfaction, and turnover intentions among employees with high levels of family-to-work conflict in prior research in a grocery store context. We replicate and extend these results in a health care setting with additional important employee outcomes (i.e., employee engagement, organizational commitment, and supervisor ratings of job performance), and consider the role of the 4 dimensions underlying the FSSB. Using a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest design, 143 health care employees completed surveys at 2 time periods approximately 10 months apart, along with their supervisors who provided ratings of employees' job performance. Between these surveys, we offered their supervisors FSSB training; 86 (71%) of these supervisors participated. Results demonstrated significant and beneficial indirect effects of FSSB training on changes in employee job performance, organizational commitment, engagement, job satisfaction, and turnover intentions through changes in employee perceptions of their supervisor's overall FSSBs. Further analyses suggest that these indirect effects are due primarily to changes in the creative work-family management dimension of FSSB. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Family Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Organizational Intervention Families Family-supportive Supervisors Health Care Workers Job Performance Supervisory Personnel Training Work-family Work-life Balance Work Organization Work Performance

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• ISSN:
  1076-8998
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  296-308
• Volume:
  21
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063243
• Citation:
  J Occup Health Psychol 2016 Jul; 21(3):296-308
• Contact Point Address:
  Heather N. Odle-Dusseau, Department of Management, 300 North Washington Street, Box 395, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325
• Email:
  hodle@gettysburg.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3e441ec700dccdf4377cf8a0014b62da6fe30da999e4acf0daaf1b09acd940bba59d0d2afa601a3731252f1e7f64bb97c2d2070254f3877fe637b34246c7aa92
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226339/cdc_226339_DS1.pdf
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