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Identifying the Family, Job, and Workplace Characteristics of Employees Who Use Work‐Family Benefits *
Author(s) -
Secret Mary
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
family relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1741-3729
pISSN - 0197-6664
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2000.00217.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , work (physics) , job performance , psychology , employee benefits , family leave , mental health , job analysis , business , job satisfaction , applied psychology , marketing , social psychology , mechanical engineering , finance , artificial intelligence , computer science , engineering , psychotherapist
A contextual effects perspective is used to identify family, job, and workplace characteristics associated with the use of work‐family benefits by 527 employees in 83 businesses. Parents of dependent children are no more likely than other employees to use benefits but particular family problems predict female employee use of paid leave and mental health benefits. Workplace size, sector, and culture are better predictors of employee use than are employee job characteristics.