Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
The Art of Designing Work: Work/Family Interface as a Mediator in the Relationship between Work Design, Burnout, and Performance
Originally published 2023-11-23 · Behavioral Sciences
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/bs13120965 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about job redesign that examines family demands alongside output; the original evidence concerns 160 white-collar employees completing an online work-design survey.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
Could changing the design of work help more than asking people to cope better?
This reading brings work design, conflict and enrichment as distinct routes to burnout and performance into the independence pathway. The cross-sectional white-collar employee survey offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
160 white-collar employees completing an online work-design survey
Age / stage: Working adults; children not directly assessed
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess work-design characteristics and the two work-family directions?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about different conflict and enrichment paths to performance and burnout?
- What would need to be checked before adopting job redesign that examines family demands alongside output?
Keep the limits in view
The small online self-report sample and observational path analysis cannot establish effects of redesign or objective performance gains.
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Maria Luisa Giancaspro; Cataldo Giuliano Gemmano; Amelia Manuti (2023). The Art of Designing Work: Work/Family Interface as a Mediator in the Relationship between Work Design, Burnout, and Performance Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13120965
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