The Influence Mechanism Of Coworker Family-Facilitative Support On Employee Job Satisfaction

Nowadays,almost all the women at the suitable age enter into the workforce,the prevalence of dual-income family makes how to balance work and family become a heated topic.In order to help employees to address the stress of work-family conflict,organizations try to develop a family friendly organizational environment to let employees put more time into work.However,implementing family-friendly benefits requires high costs,shaping family supportive climate needs long time,and supervisor family support behaviors are influenced by organizational policies as well as climate,interpersonal communication of coworkers in workplace become an important source of getting family supports when organization luck of resources but employees have a great demand of family support.Coworker Family-Facilitative Support is a series of instrumental and emotional support behaviors that help employees to balance work and family.These behaviors can address employees' work-family conflicts and increase their job satisfaction and organizational commitment.According to the review of literatures,recent researches noted the positive meaning of coworker support,but there are still few researches on its mechanism.Based on this situation,we take Organization-Based Self-Esteem Theory as the foundation,organization-based self-esteem as the mediating variable,organization family-friendly benefits and family supportive climate as the moderating variable,investigating the influence of coworker support on employees' job satisfaction.We collected 323 questionnaires from 50 different organizations,using SPSS,AMOS as well as HLM statistical software to analyze data,drawing the following conclusions:(1)The coworker family-facilitative support positively influenced employees' job satisfaction;(2)Organization-based self-esteem mediated the relationship between coworker support and employees' job satisfaction;(3)Organization family-friendly benefits moderated the relationship between coworker support and organization-based self-esteem such that the weaker the organization family-friendly benefits,the stronger the positive relationship between coworker support and organization-based self-esteem;(4)Organization family supportive climate moderated the relationship between coworker support and organization-based self-esteem such that the weaker the organization family supportive climate,the stronger the positive relationship between coworker support and organization-based self-esteem.The main contribution of this study is:(1)It focused on coworker family-facilitative support and enriched the research of organizational family-friendly environment;(2)Drawing from the theory of organization-based self-esteem,it revealed the mechanism of how coworker family-facilitative support influenced employees' job satisfaction;(3)It explored the interactions between different factors of family friendly organizational environment based on a cross-level approach,promoting a comprehensive understanding of family friendly organizational environment.