Department of Management and Organization, Foster School of Business, University of Washington.
Department of Management and Human Resources, Bissett School of Business, Mount Royal University.
J Occup Health Psychol. 2016 Apr;21(2):235-49. doi: 10.1037/a0039896. Epub 2015 Nov 16.
Recent management research has indicated the importance of family, sleep, and recreation as nonwork activities of employees. Drawing from entrainment theory, we develop an expanded model of work-life conflict to contend that macrolevel business cycles influence the amount of time employees spend on both work and nonwork activities. Focusing solely on working adults, we test this model in a large nationally representative dataset from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that spans an 8-year period, which includes the "Great Recession" from 2007 through 2009. We find that during economic booms, employees work more and therefore spend less time with family, sleeping, and recreating. In contrast, in recessionary economies, employees spend less time working and therefore more time with family, sleeping, and recreating. Thus, we extend the theory on time-based work-to-family conflict, showing that there are potential personal and relational benefits for employees in recessionary economies.
最近的管理研究表明，家庭、睡眠和娱乐等非工作活动对员工很重要。本文以同步理论为基础，提出了一个扩展的工作-生活冲突模型，认为宏观商业周期会影响员工在工作和非工作活动上所花费的时间。我们仅关注在职成年人，在涵盖 2007 年至 2009 年“大衰退”时期的美国劳工统计局的一个大型全国代表性数据集上检验了这一模型。研究发现，在经济繁荣时期，员工工作时间更长，因此与家人、睡眠和娱乐的时间更少。相比之下，在经济衰退时期，员工工作时间减少，因此与家人、睡眠和娱乐的时间更多。因此，我们扩展了基于时间的工作-家庭冲突理论，表明在经济衰退时期员工可能会获得个人和人际关系方面的好处。
