The Effect of Work Stress on Organizational Commitment: The Mediation of Family-Friendly Policies Perceptions and Work-Family Balance

• Main Authors: Chiung-En Huang, 黃瓊恩
• Other Authors: David Wen-Shung Tai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01709532912656543045

博士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 工業教育與技術學系 === 96 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between working pressure and family-friendly policies perceptions, as well as to explore how family-friendly policies balance employee’s work and family life and increase organizational commitment. Second, this study was to examine the mediators’ effect of family-friendly policies perceptions and work-family balance on working pressure and organization commitment. Finally, to construct the model and test the effect of working pressure on family-friendly policies perceptions, work-family balance, organizational commitment. 　　There were 955 valid samples which were collected from the top 1000 manufacturing and 500 services firms in Taiwan. There were four scales as researching tools including, working pressure, family-friendly policies, work-family balance and organizational commitment. In order to prove the hypotheses and exam model’s goodness-of-fit, the study used descriptive statistic, one-way ANOVA, correlation analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), hierarchical regression analysis, and block regression analysis to analyze data. 　　The results indicated that work-family balance was an important mediator. Family-friendly policies perceptions can balance work and family. The balance of work and family can increase the organizational commitment. As to background variables, people who work in high-tech industry generally are under high working pressure. For female, married, the older and high-tech industry employees, they are highly using promoting family-friendly policies perceptions. The married and high-tech industry employees highly value work-family balance.