Monday, April 30, 2007
Study Finds Workers with Home Commitments Get Fewer Opportunities
A recent report finds that workers whose family commitments impact on their work get fewer chances to advance and have poorer relationships with bosses. The study, conducted by researchers at three Ontario universities, collected nearly 400 responses by public sector employees.
The findings suggest that employees coping with family demands such as rearing children, elderly parents, difficult teenagers and financial difficulties don't get as many opportunities to move ahead in their careers.
"Workers whose mental and physical resources are being especially consumed by home and family demands need to lessen these demands or learn coping strategies. At the same time, employers can assist their employees by providing family-friendly benefits, such as subsidized couple and family counseling, on-site childcare, and subsidized elder care," says Rick Hackett, Canada Research Chair in Organizational Behaviour and Human Performance at the DeGroote School of Business.
Read the news release posted to the National Union of Public and General Employees or this this news release posted to EurekaAlert!. The McMaster study was published in Applied Psychology.
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