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  • Supervisors need to demonstrate family supportive behaviors (FSSB) to help lower wage workers balance work and family demands.
  • FSSB includes four key types of support: emotional support, instrumental support, role modeling, and creative management of work-family issues.
  • Research shows that FSSB positively impacts job satisfaction and reduces work-family conflict and turnover intentions, showing its importance beyond general supervisor support.

Article Abstract

Due to growing work-family demands, supervisors need to effectively exhibit family supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB). Drawing on social support theory and using data from two samples of lower wage workers, the authors develop and validate a measure of FSSB, defined as behaviors exhibited by supervisors that are supportive of families. FSSB is conceptualized as a multidimensional superordinate construct with four subordinate dimensions: emotional support, instrumental support, role modeling behaviors, and creative work-family management. Results from multilevel confirmatory factor analyses and multilevel regression analyses provide evidence of construct, criterion-related, and incremental validity. The authors found FSSB to be significantly related to work-family conflict, work-family positive spillover, job satisfaction, and turnover intentions over and above measures of general supervisor support.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109661PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0149206308328510DOI Listing

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