THE STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS AND FAMILY SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISOR BEHAVIORS ON WORK FAMILY ENRICHMENT

Abstract

Work and family roles are like two sides of a coin. Those two domains are crucial points for the individuals as well the organizations betterment. Most of the work-family concepts are discuss about the negative side of the work-family interface over the past decades. But there is an essentiality to investigate the bright side of the work-family interface. Therefore, this study attempts to investigate the positive side of work-family interface. There are several concepts within the work-family interface such as work-family positive spillover, enhancement, enrichment, facilitation. Those are interchangeable. Current study engrossed on work family enrichment which defined as the extent to which experiences in work role improve the quality of family life. Two main antecedents were selected by referring the existing body of knowledge regarding the work-family interface namely job characteristics and family supportive supervisor behavior and selected context was banking industry. Based on that researcher investigated the impact of job characteristics and family supportive supervisor behavior on work to family enrichment of all the bankers of Bank of Ceylon branches within Rathnapura Municipal Council area. Data were gathered from 92 bankers through a standard and validated questionnaire and analyzed those data by using SPSS 21 statistical software. A multiple regression was performed to investigate the impact of the variables interested. Pertaining to the previous research findings, the current study also brought evidence to a significant positive impact of job characteristics on work to family enrichment. In contrast to the previous research findings, no any impact was found of family supportive supervisor behaviors on work to family enrichment. Therefore, the study concludes that job characteristics would facilitate individuals functioning in the family domain. Consequently, this will help the organization to rethink about their job designing strategies to enhance the job characteristics so that it will enhance the work to family enrichment