Faculty Satisfaction and Work-Family Enrichment: The Moderating Effect of Human Resource Flexibility

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to test a model in which family-supportive organizational environment is associated with lower levels of turnover intention through higher levels of work-family enrichment and job satisfaction.Design/methodology/approachBased on a sample of 300 employees, the bootstrap procedure for estimating indirect correlations in multiple mediator models was used to test the research hypotheses.FindingsThe results suggest that employees experiencing high levels of family-supportive organizational environment are likely to report lower intention to leave their profession by virtue of their higher levels of job satisfaction and work-life enrichment.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is limited to public organization and sample size. Further research is needed to make comparison between large/state-owned and small/private organizations.Practical implicationsIn the Iran context, work-family enrichment and job satisfaction are effective in reducing the employees' turnover intention. Organizations should show concerns for the employees' work-life enrichment and job satisfaction to reduce their turnover intention.Social implicationsTurnover is one of the problems of organizations in many countries throughout the world including Iran, which has negative consequences through increasing the cost of organizations. The results of this study suggest ways in which staff retention could be improved.Originality/valueThe present study contributes to supportive organizational environment literature by addressing the relationship between family-supportive organizational environment and employee-related outcomes. Given some commonalities between Iran and other developing countries, the findings might be of potential interest in comparative studies dealing with the employees' turnover issue.

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Factors associated with work‐family enrichment among Chinese nurses assisting Wuhan’s fight against the 2019 COVID‐19 pandemic

Journal of Clinical Nursing ◽

10.1111/jocn.15677 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Yinying Zhang ◽

Min Yang ◽

Rong Wang

Keyword(s):

Factors Associated ◽

Work Family ◽

Work Family Enrichment ◽

Family Enrichment

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A Multilevel Investigation of the Effects of Daily Work–Family Interaction on Daily Affect During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x211044487 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0192513X2110444

Author(s):

Mehmet Çetin ◽

Bayram Dede ◽

Özgür Kökalan ◽

Ezgi Dede

Keyword(s):

Negative Affect ◽

Positive Affect ◽

Family Conflict ◽

Positive And Negative Affect ◽

Work Family Conflict ◽

Daily Work ◽

Level Data ◽

Work Family ◽

Work Family Enrichment ◽

Family Enrichment

This research aimed to examine the effects of daily work–family conflict and work–family enrichment on daily positive and negative affect levels of employees during the first phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. The multilevel structure of the research design makes this study original. 730 day-level data were collected from 146 respondents during five consecutive workdays. One week later, a larger survey was delivered for assessing the person-level variables. The results indicated that both forms of work–family conflict significantly decreased positive affect and increased negative affect. Both types of work–family enrichment significantly increased positive affect; but only daily work to family enrichment significantly decreased daily negative affect. Findings also revealed that positive affect levels of respondents increase while negative affect levels decrease with time. On the days employees worked from distance, lower levels of positive and negative affect were experienced.

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Informal learning, work engagement and their effects on work-family enrichment

International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management ◽

10.1108/ijppm-03-2020-0087 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Mansi Rastogi ◽

Osman M. Karatepe

Keyword(s):

Informal Learning ◽

Work Engagement ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Content Type ◽

Hotel Employees ◽

Work Family ◽

The Impact ◽

Work Family Enrichment ◽

Family Enrichment

PurposeDrawing from work-family enrichment (WFE) model and path-goal theory of motivation, this paper proposes and tests work engagement (WE) as a mediator between informal learning and WFE.Design/methodology/approachQuestionnaires measuring informal learning, WE and WFE were filled out by 290 hotel employees in India. The abovementioned linkages were tested via structural equation modeling.FindingsThe findings suggest that hotel employees' informal learning fosters their WE and WFE. The findings also reveal that WE partly mediates the impact of informal learning on WFE.Originality/valueMost of employees' learning efforts in the workplace emerge from informal learning. However, there is still limited information whether employees' informal learning activates their WE, which is a timely and significant topic. Importantly, there is a paucity of evidence appertaining to the effect of informal learning on WFE, which is underrepresented in the current literature. Evidence about the mechanism linking informal learning to WFE is also sparse.

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