Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Family Supportive Leadership and Counterproductive Work Behavior: The Roles of Work-Family Conflict, Moral Disengagement and Personal Life Attribution
Originally published 2022-05-27 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.906877 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about supportive leadership that avoids moral judgments about family demands; the original evidence concerns 251 medical workers from three hospitals.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Trust
Could supporting family life matter for everyday conduct at work?
This reading brings family-supportive leadership, work-family conflict and moral disengagement into the trust pathway. The three-wave medical-worker survey offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
251 medical workers from three hospitals
Age / stage: Working adults; children not directly assessed
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess family-supportive leadership and work-family conflict?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about moral disengagement and personal-life attribution in the model?
- What would need to be checked before adopting supportive leadership that avoids moral judgments about family demands?
Keep the limits in view
Three-wave observational reports cannot prove a causal sequence or justify treating employees with family conflict as likely to misbehave.
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Shan Jin; Xiji Zhu; Xiaoxia Fu; Jian Wang (2022). Family Supportive Leadership and Counterproductive Work Behavior: The Roles of Work-Family Conflict, Moral Disengagement and Personal Life Attribution Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.906877
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