Ilitch School management professor and doctoral student accepted for publication in Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
Mike Ilitch School of Business Assistant Professor of Management Matthew Piszczek and management Ph.D. student Viva Nsair co-authored a manuscript for publication in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (JOOP).
JOOP covers all aspects of occupational and organizational psychology, and also includes behavioral and cognitive aspects of industrial relations, human factors and ergonomics. The journal is also an outlet for articles in the management fields of organizational behavior and human resource management.
The paper is titled, “Gender Matters: The Effects of Gender and Segmentation Preferences on Work-to-Family Conflict in Family Sacrifice Climates.”
Abstract:
Despite work-family research focusing on family-friendly climates, many employees work under a family sacrifice climate, facing employer pressure to put the demands of work before the demands of family and leading to increased work-to-family conflict. A family sacrifice climate enforces consistent behavioral expectations across all employees in the form of family domain boundaries being permeable to work and work domain boundaries being impermeable to family. However, employees likely experience family sacrifice climates differently. Drawing on boundary theory and social role theory, we investigate how individual differences in gender and boundary management preferences interact to shape the relationship between perceived family sacrifice climate at work and work-to-family conflict in a two-wave sample of 157 professional employees. Results show women experience more work-to-family conflict from perceived family sacrifice climate than men, and segmentation preferences further shape this relationship, but in opposite ways for men and women. Results indicate higher segmentation preferences are associated with a stronger relationship between family sacrifice climate and work-to-family conflict for women, but a weaker relationship for men. We discuss the implications of these findings for understanding the role of organizational climate in creating gendered work-family experiences.
