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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
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ISSN: 2150-6000; 0022-1465
DOI: 10.1177/0022146511418979 [doi]
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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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