Use of work–nonwork supports and employee well-being: the mediating roles of job demands, job control, supportive management and work–nonwork conflict

Wood, Stephen, Daniels, Kevin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8620-886X and Ogbonnaya, Chidibere (2020) Use of work–nonwork supports and employee well-being: the mediating roles of job demands, job control, supportive management and work–nonwork conflict. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 31 (14). pp. 1793-1824. ISSN 0958-5192

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Abstract

This paper examines the impact of the use of work–nonwork supports on well-being. It first develops hypotheses regarding how a reduction in job demands, and an increase in both job control and supportive management may explain this relationship. We then test these hypotheses using data from Britain’s Workplace Employee Relations Survey of 2011. The research reveals that the use of work–nonwork supports has a positive association with job control and supportive supervision. These in turn mediate a relationship between the use of supports and three dimensions of employee well-being, job satisfaction, anxiety-contentment and depression-enthusiasm, some of the effect being through their reducing work–to–nonwork conflict. Use of work–nonwork supports is, however, positively associated with job demands, but this effect of use on job demands does not affect well-being. Since job autonomy and supportive supervision are major mediators, and have a direct influence on work–nonwork conflict and well-being, policy should focus on integrating job quality and work–life balance issues.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	work–nonwork supports,well-being,job demands,job control,supportive management,job design
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Employment Systems and Institutions
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	10 Jan 2018 15:30
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 17:33
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/65907
DOI:	10.1080/09585192.2017.1423102

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