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Childfree employees: The effects of flexible work arrangements and childfree-friendly culture on organisational commitment
Organisations are increasingly introducing flexible workplace practices and policies such as flextime and flexplace to increase the commitment of their employees and assist them to balance the competing work-life demands. At first, they were designed to create a family-friendly workplace for working...
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Organisational Psychology
2017
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| author | Jacobs, Albertus Abraham |
| author2 | Bagraim, Jeffrey |
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| description | Organisations are increasingly introducing flexible workplace practices and policies such as flextime and flexplace to increase the commitment of their employees and assist them to balance the competing work-life demands. At first, they were designed to create a family-friendly workplace for working mothers and, later, also for working fathers. Childfree employees (i.e., those with no children) were not included. There is little research on the impact of these work arrangements on the organisational commitment of these childfree employees. This dissertation tries to close that gap. Childfree employees (N = 134) working in over a dozen South African organisations participated in a self-report quantitative survey. It seems that the availability and use of flexible work arrangements did not significantly predict their organisational commitment. Organisational commitment related to only one dimension of the childfree-friendly culture scale, equal work expectations. Perceived organisational support (POS) mediated the relationship between organisational commitment and equal work expectations. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/25015 Childfree employees: The effects of flexible work arrangements and childfree-friendly culture on organisational commitment Jacobs, Albertus Abraham Bagraim, Jeffrey Jaga, Ameeta Organisational Psychology Organisations are increasingly introducing flexible workplace practices and policies such as flextime and flexplace to increase the commitment of their employees and assist them to balance the competing work-life demands. At first, they were designed to create a family-friendly workplace for working mothers and, later, also for working fathers. Childfree employees (i.e., those with no children) were not included. There is little research on the impact of these work arrangements on the organisational commitment of these childfree employees. This dissertation tries to close that gap. Childfree employees (N = 134) working in over a dozen South African organisations participated in a self-report quantitative survey. It seems that the availability and use of flexible work arrangements did not significantly predict their organisational commitment. Organisational commitment related to only one dimension of the childfree-friendly culture scale, equal work expectations. Perceived organisational support (POS) mediated the relationship between organisational commitment and equal work expectations. 2017-09-01T14:18:09Z 2017-09-01T14:18:09Z 2017 Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25015 eng application/pdf Organisational Psychology Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Organisational Psychology Jacobs, Albertus Abraham Childfree employees: The effects of flexible work arrangements and childfree-friendly culture on organisational commitment |
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| title | Childfree employees: The effects of flexible work arrangements and childfree-friendly culture on organisational commitment |
| title_full | Childfree employees: The effects of flexible work arrangements and childfree-friendly culture on organisational commitment |
| title_fullStr | Childfree employees: The effects of flexible work arrangements and childfree-friendly culture on organisational commitment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Childfree employees: The effects of flexible work arrangements and childfree-friendly culture on organisational commitment |
| title_short | Childfree employees: The effects of flexible work arrangements and childfree-friendly culture on organisational commitment |
| title_sort | childfree employees the effects of flexible work arrangements and childfree friendly culture on organisational commitment |
| topic | Organisational Psychology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25015 |
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