Work-to-Family Enrichment: The Ezplanation from the Mentoring Prospective
In the contemporary Chinese society, personal values and humanities are increasingly emphasized, so that employers have to take care of employees needs for the work-life balance. If work-family enrichment (WFE) is achieved, employees will be motivated in the long run. The existing literature has paid heavy attention to work-family conflicts and gotten important implications. The current study examines the employees WFE and tests the impact of having a mentor on WFE. We propose that in the early stage of organizational socialization, mentoring provided by the mentor will help resolve work-family problems of the protege and achieve WFE. Results from a field survey of 287 proteges in a manufacturing company indicate that mentoring function has positive impacts on proteges work-family enrichment. Other important findings include that the relationship between mentoring function and work-family enrichment is partially mediated by task performance that is also moderated by proteges motivation to learn. Implications of the findings are offered.
Mentoring Function Work-life Enrichment Task Performance Motivation to Learn
ZHANG Haina KWAN Ho Kwong LIU Jun
School of Business, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Department of Management, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875, USA School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing, P.R.China, 100872
国际会议
2009年战略管理国际会议(2009 International Conference on Strategic Management)
成都
英文
1014-1021
2009-06-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）