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Work-to-Family Enrichment and Employees’ Well-Being: High Performance Work System and Job Characteristics

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  • Vânia Carvalho
  • Maria Chambel

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Research has demonstrated the importance of job characteristics to explain work-to-family enrichment (WFE) and the value of this enrichment to explain employees’ wellbeing. However, there is no comprehensive framework to explain the relationship between these variables. This study uses the Job Demands-Control-Support model as a guiding framework, and examines the relationship between these job characteristics and WFE and, more interestingly, the WFE as a mechanism for explaining the relationship between job characteristics and employees’ well-being. Furthermore, we analyzed the relationship of employees’ perceptions of High Performance Work System (HPWS) with job characteristics. With a sample of 1,390 employees from a Portuguese bank, job demands were found to be negatively related to WFE while autonomy and supervisor support displayed a positive relation. We also observed that WFE is an important mechanism to explain the relationship between these job characteristics and employees’ well being. As expected, HPWS was a relevant organizational characteristic to explain job characteristics, however, we observed that it was also directly related to WFE. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

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  • Vânia Carvalho & Maria Chambel, 2014. "Work-to-Family Enrichment and Employees’ Well-Being: High Performance Work System and Job Characteristics," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 119(1), pages 373-387, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:soinre:v:119:y:2014:i:1:p:373-387
    DOI: 10.1007/s11205-013-0475-8
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