National Work-Family and Health Network
About the Study
This research was conducted as part of the Work, Family and Health Network, which is funded by a cooperative agreement through the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Grant # U01HD051217, U01HD051218, U01HD051256, U01HD051276), National Institute on Aging (Grant # U01AG027669), Office of Behavioral and Science Sciences Research, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Grant # U010H008788).
Our research team (Hammer & Kossek) has spent the past 3 years conducting a training intervention study of family-supportive supervisory behaviors (FSSB) and evaluating the effects of this intervention on worker health and safety in the grocery industry. We have demonstrated in a recent meta-analysis (Kossek, Pichler, Hammer, & Bodner, 2007) that most prior research on supervisory support and work-family outcomes has been based on general measures of emotional support, as opposed to identification of specific supervisor behaviors, further delineating the need for the development of a measure of FSSB (Hammer, Kossek, Yragui, Bodner, & Hanson, under review), as well as the need for training managers on FSSB in hopes of decreasing work-family conflict of workers and ultimately improving their health and safety outcomes. We developed a training intervention to test these notions.
Here are some early publications and technical reports from the study.
Kossek, E. & Hammer, L. and colleagues. 2008. Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors: Implications for Work-Family Safety and Stress. Based on The National Work, Family and Health Network Pilot Study for U.S. Grocery Industry Store. April 16th, 2008. National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety and National Institutional of Child and Health Development.Feedback_Report_Final_
Hammer, L. B., Kossek, E. E., Zimmerman, K., & Daniels, R. 2007. Clarifying the construct of family supportive supervisory behaviors (FSSB): A Multilevel perspective. In P. L. Perrewe and D. C. Ganster (Eds.).Research in occupational stress and well-being (Vol. 6, pp. 171-211). Amsterdam: Elsevier Ltd. Hammer Kossek Zimmerman Daniels 2007 reduced
Kelly, E., Kossek, E., Hammer, L. Durham, M. , Bray, J., Chermack, K., Murphy, L. , Kaskubar, D. In press. Getting There from Here: Research on the Effects of Work-Family Initiatives on Work-Family Conflict and Business Outcomes. The Academy of Management Annals (Volume 2), James P. Walsh and Arthur Brief (Eds.) Kelly et al_Review
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