How Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors Enhance Employees' Work-Family Enrichment? Thriving at Work as Mediator and Intrinsic Motivation as Moderator

Chuangang Shen; Rui Liu; Jing Yang; Sanman Hu; Peixu He

doi:10.2147/PRBM.S379000

How Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors Enhance Employees' Work-Family Enrichment? Thriving at Work as Mediator and Intrinsic Motivation as Moderator

Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2022 Oct 25:15:3133-3146. doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S379000. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Chuangang Shen¹, Rui Liu¹, Jing Yang², Sanman Hu¹, Peixu He¹

Affiliations

¹ Business School, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, 362021, People's Republic of China.
² College of Tourism, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, 362021, People's Republic of China.

Abstract

Purpose: From the perspective of the work-home resource model, the present research aims to investigate the effect mechanism of family supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB) on work-family enrichment.

Sample and method: Based on 316 Chinese employees' samples, this study takes the multiple linear regression technique to test our hypothesis model.

Results: Our study reveals that FSSB is positively related to work-family enrichment. In addition, thriving at work can mediate the positive relationship between family-supportive supervisor behaviors and work-family enrichment. Furthermore, the moderating role of intrinsic motivation is also found in this study. Specifically, intrinsic motivation strengthens the positive relationship between FSSB and thriving at work. Facing FSSB, individuals who score high in intrinsic motivation are prone to experience stronger thriving at work, while individuals who score low will hardly experience thriving at work.

Conclusion: The current study comprehensively explores how informal organizational support (in our case, family supportive supervisor behaviors) leads to a better family outcome, thus contributing to the work-family interface literature. At the same time, our study also has some guiding significance for practitioners to build a family-friendly environment.

Keywords: family supportive supervisor behaviors; thriving at work; work-family enrichment; work-home resource model.

Grants and funding

Funding was provided by Huaqiao University’s Academic Project Supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (20SKGC-QT02) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (72172048).