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Moen, Phyllis; Kelly, Erin L.; Tranby, Eric; Huang, Qinlei

Changing Work, Changing Health : Can Real Work-Time Flexibility Promote Health Behaviors and Well-Being?

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  • Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Changing Work, Changing Health : Can Real Work-Time Flexibility Promote Health Behaviors and Well-Being? : Can Real Work-Time Flexibility Promote Health Behaviors and Well-Being?
  • Contributor: Moen, Phyllis; Kelly, Erin L.; Tranby, Eric; Huang, Qinlei
  • Published: SAGE Publications, 2011
  • Published in: Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 52 (2011) 4, Seite 404-429
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1177/0022146511418979
  • ISSN: 0022-1465; 2150-6000
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  • Description: 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.