ArticleAmerican sociological review2014
Changing Work and Work-Family Conflict: Evidence from the Work, Family, and Health Network*
Article in American sociological review, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05199415 (Fulfillment Center Intervention Study as Part of The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing), which is not on this map. Cited by 106 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Fulfillment Center Intervention Study as Part of The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing
Who cites it
106 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Beyond the Transparent Barrier: A Domain Visualization and Integrative Review of Contemporary Research on Gender-Based Professional Stasis.F1000Research · 2026Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Workplace Interventions for Improving Working Conditions on the Health and Wellbeing of Fathers or Parents: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Human resource management training of supervisors for improving health and well-being of employees.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of work-family conflict and social support.Psychological bulletin · 2018Pooled it
- Employee Cardiometabolic Risk Following a Cluster-Randomized Workplace Intervention From the Work, Family and Health Network, 2009-2013.American journal of public health · 2023Trial
- Caring for the elderly at work and home: Can a randomized organizational intervention improve psychological health?Journal of occupational health psychology · 2019Trial
- Sustaining sleep: Results from the randomized controlled work, family, and health study.Journal of occupational health psychology · 2019Trial
- Effects of a Flexibility/Support Intervention on Work Performance: Evidence From the Work, Family, and Health Network.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2018Trial
- Cost and Return on Investment of a Work-Family Intervention in the Extended Care Industry: Evidence From the Work, Family, and Health Network.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2017Trial
- The Effects of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Workplace Intervention on Sleep and Work-Family Conflict Outcomes in an Extended Care Setting.Sleep health · 2016Trial
- Age differences in workplace intervention effects on employees' nighttime and daytime sleep.Sleep health · 2016Trial
- Effects of workplace intervention on affective well-being in employees' children.Developmental psychology · 2016Trial
- Return on Investment of a Work-Family Intervention: Evidence From the Work, Family, and Health Network.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2015Trial
- Effects of a workplace intervention on sleep in employees' children.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2015Trial
- Parents' daily time with their children: a workplace intervention.Pediatrics · 2015Trial
- Effects of a Workplace Intervention Targeting Psychosocial Risk Factors on Safety and Health Outcomes.BioMed research international · 2015Trial
- Offering paid sick and family leave is not enough: Leave supportive supervisor behavior training improves policy use, health, and work outcomes.The Journal of applied psychology · 2026Article
- Passive-avoidant leadership and psychological distress among Iranian nurses: the mediating role of work-to-family conflict.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Cross-lagged associations among family-supportive supervisory behaviors, leader-member exchange, and work engagement: a test of gain spirals of resources.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- On the mixed-model analysis of covariance in cluster-randomized trials.Statistical science : a review journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics · 2026Article
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Abstract
Schedule control and supervisor support for family and personal life are work resources that may help employees manage the work-family interface. However, existing data and designs have made it difficult to conclusively identify the effects of these work resources. This analysis utilizes a group-randomized trial in which some units in an information technology workplace were randomly assigned to participate in an initiative, called STAR, that targeted work practices, interactions, and expectations by (a) training supervisors on the value of demonstrating support for employees' personal lives and (b) prompting employees to reconsider when and where they work. We find statistically significant, though modest, improvements in employees' work-family conflict and family time adequacy and larger changes in schedule control and supervisor support for family and personal life. We find no evidence that this intervention increased work hours or perceived job demands, as might have happened with increased permeability of work across time and space. Subgroup analyses suggest the intervention brings greater benefits to employees more vulnerable to work-family conflict. This study advances our understanding of the impact of social structures on individual lives by investigating deliberate organizational changes and their effects on work resources and the work-family interface with a rigorous design.
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