Family-supportive supervisor behaviours: The role of relational resources in work and home domains

Ererdi, Can; Rofcanin, Yasin; Las Heras, Mireia; Barraza, Maria; Wang, Siqi; Bakker, Arnold; Bosch, Maria Jose; Berber, Aykut

Abstract

This study explores the nomological network of family-supportive supervisor behaviours (FSSBs) at the weekly level. Drawing on the tenets of the work–home resources (W-HR) model and the conservation of resources theory, we integrate relational resources in the model and investigate their role as triggers of FSSBs. Furthermore, we explore how FSSBs relate to both within domain (production deviance and employee creativity) and between domain (sleep quality and dyadic adjustment) employee outcomes, with a focus on exhaustion as a mediator. Our findings show that (1) spousal support experienced by the supervisor is positively related to the employee's perception of FSSBs as enacted by the supervisor, (2) employees' perceptions of FSSBs are negatively related to employees' production deviance and (3) exhaustion is a mediator between FSSBs and employee outcomes of creativity, sleep quality and dyadic adjustment. Our findings across two multisource and diary studies underline the importance of designing and implementing FSSBs in a dynamic fashion.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 19, 2023
• Online Publication Date: May 18, 2023
• Publication Date: Mar 31, 2024
• Deposit Date: Apr 27, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: May 19, 2025
• Journal: European Management Review
• Print ISSN: 1740-4754
• Electronic ISSN: 1740-4762
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 220-236
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12576
• Keywords: Family supportive supervisor behaviours, spousal support, workplace deviance, weekly diary data
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10718328