Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Work-Family Enrichment: Influence of Job Autonomy on Job Satisfaction of Knowledge Employees
Originally published 2021-12-02 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.726550 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about autonomy over meaningful job decisions; the original evidence concerns degree-qualified technical, managerial and professional workers across Chinese cities.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
What kind of autonomy might become a resource at home?
This reading brings job autonomy, self-efficacy and enrichment across work and family domains into the independence pathway. The knowledge-worker questionnaire study offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
Degree-qualified technical, managerial and professional workers across Chinese cities
Age / stage: Working adults; children not directly assessed
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess job autonomy, self-efficacy and work-family enrichment?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about supported and unsupported paths to different satisfaction measures?
- What would need to be checked before adopting autonomy over meaningful job decisions?
Keep the limits in view
Observational questionnaire modeling cannot show that granting autonomy causes satisfaction; direct self-efficacy mediation was not supported in the proposed model.
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Song Jing; Zhuoyu Li; Daniel M J J Stanley; Xia Guo; Wang Wenjing (2021). Work-Family Enrichment: Influence of Job Autonomy on Job Satisfaction of Knowledge Employees Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.726550
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