Availability and Use of Work–Life Balance Programs: Relationship with Organizational Profitability

DuckJung Shin and Jackson Enoh
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DuckJung Shin: Chung-Ang University Business School, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea
Jackson Enoh: Dhillon School of Business, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 7, 1-12

Abstract: The present paper investigated the relationship between work–life balance programs (WLBPs) and business outcomes at the organizational level. First, we examined the effect of WLBPs on organizational profitability (revenues minus expenditures per employee). Second, we extended the discussion on the job demands-resources (JD-R) model by considering how and why WLBPs can mitigate nonjob demands. Specifically, we tested the moderating role of the availability and use of WLBPs in the WLBPs-organizational profitability relationship. We found that both availability and use of WLBPs moderate the WLBPs-profitability relationship. We discussed implications of the findings.

Keywords: work–life balance programs; human-resource management; organizational profitability; resource availability; resource use; job demands-resources model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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