Childcare demands and employee performance

IF 1.6 Q3 MANAGEMENT

Team Performance Management Pub Date : 2016-03-02 DOI:10.1108/TPM-09-2015-0038

John Ofori Damoah, Alex Ntsiful

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Purpose – This study aims to investigate the effect of childcare demands on the work performance of mothers. It examines the moderating influence of team support on the relationship between childcare demands and employee performance. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 217 working mothers in various companies in Ghana. Hierarchical linear regression analysis was used to estimate the research model. Findings – The results indicate that childcare demands negatively relate to performance of working mothers at workplace. Further, team support moderates the negative relationship between childcare demands and employee performance such that the relationship is positive and significant. Research limitations/implications – The study adopted a cross-sectional data collection method that prevented casual inferences among the variables. Longitudinal research design will be more beneficial in future research endeavours. Further research should test the influence of personality characteristics of ind...

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儿童保育需求与员工绩效

目的:本研究旨在探讨托儿需求对母亲工作绩效的影响。研究团队支持对托儿需求与员工绩效关系的调节作用。设计/方法/方法-数据收集自加纳各公司的217名职业母亲。采用层次线性回归分析对研究模型进行估计。研究结果-结果表明，托儿需求与职业母亲的工作表现呈负相关。此外，团队支持调节了托儿需求与员工绩效之间的负向关系，使其成为显著的正相关。研究局限性/启示-该研究采用了横断面数据收集方法，防止了变量之间的随机推断。纵向研究设计将更有利于今后的研究工作。进一步的研究应该测试人格特征对研究结果的影响。

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Team Performance Management MANAGEMENT-

CiteScore

3.40

自引率

29.40%

发文量

期刊介绍： This international journal contributes to the successful implementation and development of work teams and team-based organizations by providing a forum for sharing experience and learning to stimulate thought and transfer of ideas. It seeks to bridge the gap between research and practice by publishing articles where the claims are evidence-based and the conclusions have practical value. Effective teams form the heart of every successful organization. But team management is one of the hardest challenges faced by managers.