MPC Member Publications

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Title: Changing work, changing health: can real work-time flexibility promote health behaviors and well-being?

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2011

ISSN: 2150-6000; 0022-1465

DOI: 10.1177/0022146511418979 [doi]

PMCID: PMC3267478

PMID: 22144731

Abstract: This article investigates a change in the structuring of work time, using a natural experiment to test whether participation in a corporate initiative (Results Only Work Environment; ROWE) predicts corresponding changes in health-related outcomes. Drawing on job strain and stress process models, we theorize greater schedule control and reduced work-family conflict as key mechanisms linking this initiative with health outcomes. Longitudinal survey data from 659 employees at a corporate headquarters shows that ROWE predicts changes in health-related behaviors, including almost an extra hour of sleep on work nights. Increasing employees' schedule control and reducing their work-family conflict are key mechanisms linking the ROWE innovation with changes in employees' health behaviors; they also predict changes in well-being measures, providing indirect links between ROWE and well-being. This study demonstrates that organizational changes in the structuring of time can promote employee wellness, particularly in terms of prevention behaviors.

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Authors: Moen, Phyllis; Kelly, Erin L; Tranby, Eric; Huang, Q

Periodical (Full): Journal of health and social behavior

Issue: 4

Volume: 52

Pages: 404-832

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