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How do flexibility i‐deals relate to work performance? Exploring the roles of family performance and organizational context
Author(s) -
Las Heras Mireia,
Rofcanin Yasin,
Matthijs Bal P.,
Stollberger Jakob
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.2203
Subject(s) - flexibility (engineering) , context (archaeology) , psychology , work (physics) , stressor , facilitator , perspective (graphical) , perceived organizational support , social psychology , resource (disambiguation) , organizational performance , work systems , association (psychology) , knowledge management , organizational commitment , management , computer science , engineering , economics , mechanical engineering , paleontology , biology , clinical psychology , computer network , artificial intelligence , psychotherapist
Summary Drawing on the work–home resources model and conservation of resources theory, in this study, we explore how flexibility idiosyncratic deals (i‐deals) relate to employees' work performance through their family performance. In line with the work–home resources model, we introduce 2 contextual conditions to explain when our proposed associations may unfold. One is a facilitator: perceived organizational support; and the other is a stressor: perceived hindering work demands. The results of a matched sample of employees and their supervisors working in 2 companies in El Salvador support our hypotheses. Our findings show that the benefits of flexibility i‐deals to the work domain (i.e., work performance) extend only through the family domain (i.e., family performance). Our findings also emphasize that flexibility i‐deals do not unfold in a dyadic vacuum: For employees who perceive organizational support to be higher, the association between flexibility i‐deals and family performance is stronger, whereas for employees who perceive hindering work demands to be lower, the association between family performance and employee work performance is also stronger. We contribute to i‐deals research by (a) exploring a relevant mechanism through which flexibility i‐deals influence work performance, (b) integrating the role of social context to emphasize the social aspects of i‐deals, and (c) enriching the i‐deals literature by introducing a resource perspective.