Can You Have Your Cake and Eat It? Construction and Measurement of Employees' Work-Family Integration

Abstract

Abstract: The mobile technology has accelerated the fusion of the borders between work and family. With the changes of family structure of the working couples, work-family integration has become a new hot topic in the research field of the positive side of work and family roles. However, the definition and the measurement of work-family integration are still at the starting stage. In view of this, this study proposes the definition of work-family integration and analyzes the multiple connotations of work-family integration at planning and behavioral levels. Through the pretest of 69 individual samples and the large-scale sample questionnaire survey of 245 employees in Chinese enterprises, this study also develops the three dimension measurement tools for work-family integration, which opens up a new path for the positive research of work-family interface.

Key words: work-family integration, three-dimension construction system, three-dimension measurement tool

CLC Number:

F272.92

HU Yu-chen, LI Meng-xiao, DENG Xiao-dong, WEI Peng. Can You Have Your Cake and Eat It? Construction and Measurement of Employees' Work-Family Integration[J]. Journal of Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, 2020, 0(6): 46-56.

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