| Author: | Shek, Mei-ling Gemini |
| Title: | Benefits that pay : family friendly policies and practices and organizational citizenship behaviors |
| Degree: | M.Sc. |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Subject: | Work and family Organizational commitment Organizational behavior Hong Kong Polytechnic University -- Dissertations |
| Department: | Multi-disciplinary Studies Department of Management |
| Pages: | vii, 103, [8] leaves : col. ill. ; 30 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | This study investigates the employees' attitudes concerning the organization's family friendly policies and practices on their cognitive, affective and behavioral outcomes from a social exchange perspective. Family friendly policies and practices were postulated to be significantly and positively related to perceived organizational support and affective commitment. Perceived organizational support was further hypothesized to be a moderator between these policies and practices and affective commitment. Meanwhile, affective commitment and perceived organizational support were expected to explain the variance of citizenship behaviors positively. Survey data were gathered from 279 full time employees from various industries in Hong Kong. The models and hypotheses were tested with regression techniques. Results indicate that family friendly policies and practices, especially supportive supervisor, serve as the significant predictor of all study variables. The overall findings are consistent with the social exchange perspective that benefits directed at employees by organization may contribute to the establishment of high quality exchange relationship that create obligations for employees to reciprocate in beneficial ways. Implications of results in a Chinese context, to the human resources practitioners and future studies were highlighted. |
| Rights: | All rights reserved |
| Access: | restricted access |
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