A Meta-Analytic Review of the Consequences Associated with Work–Family Enrichment
verifiedrich profile · Journal of Business and Psychology · 2009
McNall, Laurel A.; Nicklin, Jessica M.; Masuda, Aline D.
How this was studied
A meta-analytic synthesis — it pools many primary studies rather than running a single design, so there is no single-study diagram.
What this article reports
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work to family enrichment → turnover intention
Models this article informs
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work to family enrichment predicts affective commitment
work to family enrichment predicts turnover intention
In the authors’ words
The article’s own abstract.
variablesincluding theproportionofwomeninthesample Purpose Thisstudyinvestigatedtherelationshipbetween aswellastheconstructlabel(e.g.,enrichment,facilitation, work-to-family enrichment (WFE) and family-to-work positive spillover). enrichment (FWE) with work-related, non work-related, Implications Our work indicates that organizations need and health-related consequences using meta-analysis. to consider ways to not only reduce conflict, but also Design/methodology/approach We conducted a meta- increase enrichment, which will drive many important analyticreviewof21studies(54correlations)forWFEand outcome variables. 25 studies (57 correlations) for FWE. Originality/value This is the first meta-analysis on the Findings We found that both WFE and FWE were pos- positive side of the work–family interface. itively related to job satisfaction, affective commitment, and family satisfaction but not turnover intentions. WFE Keywords Work–family balance (cid:1) was more strongly related to work-rel
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supports “…that enrichment is associated with work-related outcomes such as job satisfaction (i.e. degree of pleasure derived from the job), affective commitment (i.e. emotional attachment to the organisation), and turnover intentions (i.e. thoughts of leaving the company) (McNall, Nicklin, & Masuda, 2010).”
supports “…that enrichment is associated with work-related outcomes such as job satisfaction (i.e. degree of pleasure derived from the job), affective commitment (i.e. emotional attachment to the organisation), and turnover intentions (i.e. thoughts of leaving the company) (McNall, Nicklin, & Masuda, 2010).”
supports “For organisations, for example, someone who experiences work-family enrichment tends to be more loyal to work and is more vigour and thriving in the workplace, so it can reduce turnover intention (McNall et al., 2010; Cinamon & Rich, 2010; Russo et al., 2018; Kim et al., 2021).”
supports “In an interesting review work McNall and colleagues [102] analyzing numerous papers have found a positive correlation between work-family enrichment and family-work enrichment with job satisfaction and affective commitment.”
supports “A short span of research has established enrichment to be a robust predictor of several dimensions of well-being (such as job satisfaction, family satisfaction, affective commitment, and psychical and mental health) and employee job performance (McNall et al., 2010).”
supports “…of work-family enrichment was published in 2010 and found that both work-to-family and familyto-work enrichment were positively associated with job satisfaction, affective commitment to the work organization, family satisfaction, and overall physical and mental health (McNall et al., 2010).”
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